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The Happening (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] (2008)

Mark Wahlberg , John Leguizamo , M. Night Shyamalan  |  R |  Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Mark Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, Betty Buckley, Zooey Deschanel
  • Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
  • Format: AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: Unknown (DTS-HD High Res Audio)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Dubbed: French, Spanish
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: October 7, 2008
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (450 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001DZOC3W
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,030 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "The Happening (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]" on IMDb

Special Features

  • BONUS VIEW* with Trivia Track
  • Deleted Scenes with Introductions by M. Night Shyamalan
  • Train Shooting Featurette
  • The Hard Cut Featurette
  • Forces Unseen Featurette
  • "I Hear You Whispering Featurette
  • Visions of The Happening: A Making-of Featurette
  • A Day for Night Featurette
  • Elements of a Scene Featurette
  • Gag Reel
  • Enhanced for D-Box Motion Control Systems
  • Digital copy of The Happening for Portable Media Players

Editorial Reviews

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You'd expect the end of the world to be no day in the park, but in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, a day in the park is where the end begins. One otherwise peaceful summer morning, New Yorkers strolling in Central Park come to a halt in unison, then begin killing themselves by any means at hand. At a high-rise construction site a few blocks over, it's raining bodies as workers step off girders into space. And all the while, the city is so quiet you can hear the gentle breeze in the trees. That breeze carries a neurotoxin, and what or who put it there (terrorists?) is a question raised periodically as the film unfolds. But the question that really matters is how and whether anybody in the Middle Atlantic states is going to stay alive. The Happening is Shyamalan's best film since The Sixth Sense, partly because he avoids the kind of egregious misjudgment that derailed The Village and Lady in the Water, but mostly because the whole thing has been structured and imagined to keep faith with the point of view of regular, unheroic folks confronted with a mammoth crisis. Focal characters are a Philadelphia high-school science teacher (Mark Wahlberg, excellent), his wife (Zooey Deschanel) and math-teacher colleague (John Leguizamo), and the latter’s little girl (Ashlyn Sanchez). Instinct says get out of the cities and move west; most of the film takes place in the delicately picturesque Pennsylvania countryside, with menace hovering somewhere in the haze. There are no special effects (apart from a wind machine and some breakaway glass), but the movie manages to be deeply unsettling in the matter-of-factness of its storytelling. Especially effective is its feel for what we might call the surrealism of banality. One warning sign that someone has been infected by the neurotoxin is irrational or erratic speech and behavior, yet Shyamalan has a genius for dialogue that sounds normal and everyday as it's spoken, yet flies apart grenade-like a second later as its logic (or illogic) sinks in. Then there's Deschanel's eye-rolling dodginess about the messages some guy has been leaving on her cellphone. Or the fellow (Frank Collis) who addresses his greenhouse plants as though they were his children--has a stray toxic zephyr wafted his way, or is this just his idea of normal? --Richard T. Jameson


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Product Description

Widescreen, BluRay DVD.From M. Night Shyamalan, the writer-director of The Sixth Sense and Signs, comes a gripping thriller about a family on the run from a mysterious and deadly phenomenon. Academy Awardr Nominee Mark Wahlberg (2006 Best Supporting Actor -The Departed) stars as Elliot Moore, an ordinary man trying to save his family from a terrifying, invisible killer. As Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there, it soon becomes clear that no one 'and nowhere' is safe.

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The movie still sucks: bad acting and cheesy dialogue. Card Recipient  |  135 reviewers made a similar statement
A killer wind caused by intelligent trees making people kill themselves. AWG  |  90 reviewers made a similar statement
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Off the Rails October 15, 2008
Format:DVD
The Happening is the story of a couple, teacher Elliott More (played by Mark Wahlberg) and his wife Alma (played by Zooey Deschanel), who wake up one day to find that the east coast of the United States is under some sort of event/happening/terrorist attack. They flee the city via train, trying to escape this happening, and this is where the movie takes off.

I have to admit, I liked the first half of this film, the buildup wasn't bad, and the script was pretty good. But then somewhere near the middle, during a scene where the protagonists exited a train, the movie went off the rails.

The last half of this film was a huge disappointment. The happening seemed to attack everyone but the lead characters, and the movie turned into a spoof of itself. The ending was flat, and you are left with an emotionless feeling; a sense of "why did I watch this" washes over you.

Unlike many people who reviewed The Happening, I am a fan of M. Night. I loved Signs, Unbreakable and Lady In The Water. But The Happening is not cut from the same mold. The script, especially the dialog, are horrendous and read about as hokey as it gets.

Rent before you buy this movie.
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80 of 106 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Disappointing October 10, 2008
Format:DVD
Someone save M. Night Shymalan from himself. For a man who insists on writing, producing and directing his own movies, he's digging an early grave for his career as a filmmaker and "The Happening" has breached the six-foot mark for his burial. Sporting a lousy script and lousy performances to boot, Shyamalan's much talked-about first R-rated film is a travesty of filmmaking that deserves no better than a 30% rating. If it were a tomato, it'd be pretty darn rotten.

The film begins in the early morning hours in Central Park. People are milling about, casually strolling, going about their business. Two young women sit on a bench chit-chatting when one of them hears a shrill scream and turns her head in the direction of the sound. What she begins to see after a moderate breeze blows through are people suddenly frozen in their tracks, still as statues, an act that mirrors that of a real-life coordinated event once performed in NY's own Grand Central Station (and I have to wonder whether the film was somehow conceived from that). As she turns to her friend Claire to tell her what she sees, her friend begins mumbling incoherently and slowly removes the hairpick from her tightly wound chignon, deliberately stabbing herself in the neck.

From there, we are taken to a construction site three blocks away at 8:39 am, only six minutes into the future from the strange occurrence at Central Park. A body drops from a fatal height and several foremen rush to his aid, only to witness several more men fall to their death. We are then scooted along to a small high school in Pennsylvania where science teacher Elliott Moore (Wahlberg) is giving an animated lecture at 9:45 am.
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65 of 87 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Is it happening? October 11, 2008
Format:DVD
OK...Umm...Uh...OK, just stall words to keep me from getting started. OK, here goes.

First the negative: "The Happening" just is not happening as a successful film. Did M. Night really think a movie with the wind blowing trees and grasses would be frightening? Or that the addition of music as a character with the wind would be ominous enough? Perhaps it is with Mark Wahlberg that he expected the movie to be scary. After all, Wahlberg is noted for his intense acting and those serious facial contortions. One scene shows a side view of his face all screwed up. All I could think was how deeply creased his forehead would one day be! A scary movie should not allow me to think that!

However, one of the few really scary parts occurred when the greenhouse guy was in the scene. First, he tells us that plants respond to human voices (true, long-time studies have confirmed this) and that they can respond negatively as well--deep foreshadowing! After the close-up of his misaligned facial features, I fully expected this dude to be hit with neurotoxins and go beserk. Didn't happen. Red herring!

Another really scary part involved the old woman living in isolation, who revealed herself to be beserk without help of neurotoxins. Maybe that was M Night's point: Nature needs to help along the deletion of unsavory human beings, especially including Average Joe (the construction site jumpers--it is no telling what they have done to the plant world!!), but also the truly insane (the old woman who wisely chose to live in the safety of isolation).

I'm going to leave the last three months alone. I could tear into the problems there, too.

Now the positive: Some of these comments are just the reverse of my negative ones.
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51 of 68 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Shockingly bad October 7, 2008
Format:DVD
Let me preface by saying I'm not a troll that 1-Stars movies lightly. But this? It plays out like a parody of those old 1950s movies, before things like film-acting and special effects were invented (just kidding...uh...somewhat...).

Its been a looooong time since I've seen actors phone in their performances like Wahlberg and Leguizamo have done here. NO, WAIT! Tim Allen in ZOOM, yeah, its about that speed.

Truth is, though, when things fall apart, I'm a "blame the director" type of viewer (but come on guys, didn't you watch the dailies???). Fascinatingly misdirected by Shymalan, you will swear you're watching a student film. And I liked everything he did up 'til Lady in the Bathtub.

Beware: Zooey's facial expressions aren't for the faint of heart.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Waist of money and time
Poor acting on walberg, but its actually on the director, he could have made a better story, scenes out of it, waist of time
Published 10 days ago by Jose aguilar
3.0 out of 5 stars Happening
It took a lot to finish watching it. It never really made sence. Don't feel like I could give a good recomendation
Published 20 days ago by Bonnie K Long
4.0 out of 5 stars "The Happening" is great!
"The Happening" is great! This is how the story goes: A family is on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind--but the most basic human... Read more
Published 22 days ago by Kris King
3.0 out of 5 stars It's okay
This was an entertaining film that never fully developed it's theme. I suggest this because we never get a clear sense of what causes the problems. Read more
Published 1 month ago by alienist
1.0 out of 5 stars Lame and Unintentionally Comedic!
The Happening is said to be the all-time low point in Shyamalan's career. It started with the village, but it was the Happening where it really started to hit us that M. Read more
Published 1 month ago by mitchell5954
4.0 out of 5 stars Crappy movie overall, but it has an original, creative story so 3...
Overall, this really is a horrible movie. But it has a sort of cheesy, otherworldly aspect to it that makes it an original and creative movie. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Sunny California
5.0 out of 5 stars Makes you think...
On the mention of a friend that I should watch this movie I watched with great interest. A little slow in the beginning and need more backstory but a good movie.
Published 1 month ago by EricWagner
1.0 out of 5 stars the worse Wahlberg movie ever
This has to be the worse Wahlberg movie ever and I'm a fan of most of his movies. don't waste a second watching this movie.
Published 2 months ago by thomas Upshaw
5.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful suspense
The movie encouraged people to work together to solve the problem. The people prejudices might otherwise exist in order to find a way to survive. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jim Haglund
1.0 out of 5 stars Almost "so bad, it's good"....but no, it's just bad
M. What happened? Seriously? THE EFFING WIND?!

Poor concept, HORRIBLE dialogue, acting that wholly consists of blank stares into the abyss. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Janelle Greene
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Horrible movie...
It's like Zooey doesn't know what movie she is in!
Aug 28, 2009 by G. Broschart |  See all 5 posts
M. Night Shyamalan keeps getting better
i agree, this is shaymalan's best....and i'm not even a huge fan. i think that the mood he sets w/ pacing and imagery is the obvious genius, but i'll take exception to the other reviewers that claim that the story is garbage.....use your imagination folks, don't expect all directors to lay... Read more
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You are truly sad. I "recomandate" you get some help.
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