Bruce Willis’s Best 90s Movie Is Even Better Than You Remember

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These days, M. Night Shyamalan is a controversial director thanks to the varying quality of his filmography: for every provocative success like… DividesThere is such a bad smell trap or Event. This controversy is old and bitter enough to scare away audiences new and old from the director’s work. However, Shyamalan’s breakout film Sixth sense It’s better than you remember, and you can experience all its ghostly glory by streaming it on Hulu.

hypothesis Sixth sense is that a recently traumatized child psychiatrist (he was shot months ago) has a new patient: a young boy who claims he can see dead people. At first, it seems that the child is simply suffering from schizophrenia, but there are increasing signs that he may be telling the truth. By the time the psychiatrist succeeds in connecting the worlds of the living and the dead, it is clear that neither his nor the boy’s life will ever be the same.

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Sixth sense Packed with some big names, including Bruce Willis (best known for the action epic Die hard) as a child psychiatrist finds himself in a bit of a mess with his new patient. That patient is played by Haley Joel Osment, best known outside of this film for Steven Spielberg’s ambitious film Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence. Meanwhile, his mother is played by Toni Collette, who is famous outside of this film for her hit horror film Hereditary.

There are other amazing actors in this movie, including Donnie Wahlberg and Mischa Barton. Mostly, this film serves as a master class in acting for both Willis and Osment: for veteran Willis, this film cemented the fact that he can take on more serious and nuanced roles. As for the young Osment, this movie helped make him a bona fide star, and rightly so… he’s one of the most talented and memorable child actors to ever grace the silver screen.

A major horror hit

In addition, Sixth sense It’s one of those horror films with huge appeal: against a budget of $40 million, it grossed $672.8 million. This was enough at the box office to make M. Night Shyamalan a successful director in Hollywood, and his next film was an unconventional superhero drama. Unbreakable. This follow-up film launched an interconnected world of Shyamalan consisting of Unbreakable, Dividesand glassis a bit like the director’s answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

when Sixth sense After the film’s release, critics were collectively impressed by M. Night Shyamalan’s big film. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 86 percent, and critics praised the film for its many frightening twists and turns. They also praised how the film blended the sensibilities of classic Hollywood cinema with the frightening thrills that modern audiences crave.

Prestigious awards and nominations

In addition, Sixth sense The film won some major awards, including a Bram Stoker Award (Best Screenplay), a Nebula Award (Best Screenplay), and two Saturn Awards (Best Horror Film and Best Young Actor/Actress. It was also nominated for some prestigious awards, including two Golden Globe Award nominations and six Academy Award nominations. Although it did not receive any of these awards, the fact that it received so many major nominations was proof positive that M. Night Shyamalan had become one of the creators of Most visible in Hollywood.

I saw Sixth sense It was released in theaters decades ago and I was immediately impressed by what Shyamalan was doing as he effortlessly turned what could have been a routine ghost story into a meditation on grief, death, and the importance of finding family. I’ve revisited the film several times over the years, but it resonates even more recently because I feel haunted by some ghosts of my own these days. Part of the film’s heightened appeal is the bittersweet joy of seeing Bruce Willis in his prime, knowing we’ll never see the actor again after his devastating dementia diagnosis.

Would you agree to that? Sixth sense Better than you remember, or would you rather see dead people than re-watch this twisted tale again? The only way to find out is to go to your couch and stream this modern classic yourself. If you decide to watch the rest of M. Night Shyamalan’s films, be warned: it takes a long time to get past the need to give each movie its own crazy ending.