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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 15

Cast Bruce Willis Haley Joel Osment Toni Collette Olivia Williams

Directors M Night Shyamalan

Screenwriters M Night Shyamalan

Running Time 103 minutes

EMPIRE ESSAY: The Sixth Sense (15)

Plot
Child psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe is confronted one night by his former patient Vincent Gray who he failed to help. After Vincent shoots Crowe in the stomach and kills himself, Crowe can't stop thinking about it. A few months later he is hired to help a troubled boy named Cole Sear, who has many of the same problems Vincent had. Crowe sees a chance to redeem himself, but doubts his ability to reach the boy, particularly when Cole claims to see ghosts who don't know they're dead.

Verdict
There is an unnerving but emotionally satisfying maturity to The Sixth Sense that makes it so much more than a beautifully worked parlour trick. It's a ghost story about being human.


Reviewer: Ian Nathan

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