The Happening | Full Movie
The Happening
- R
- 1h 31m
- 2008
18%
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A paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity.
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© 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
Rotten Tomatoes® Score
TOMATOMETER®
18%Critics Consensus: The Happening begins with promise, but unfortunately descends into an incoherent and unconvincing trifle.
Reviews
Time Out
Nigel Floyd
At first, a great deal happens, then nothing much happens for quite some time, then something so u...
June 22, 2017
The New Republic
Christopher Orr
[A]n astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almo...
June 21, 2017
New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The Happening is an awful letdown, yet it leaves you with something new, as a gently waving tree -...
June 21, 2017
Observer
Rex Reed
For a movie with the potential for so much global-warming electricity, it's disappointingly low on...
March 3, 2019
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It almost dares you to roll your eyes or laugh at certain scenes that are supposed to be deadly se...
March 3, 2019
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Common Sense Media
age 17+Common Sense Says
Horror film is long on peril, but thin on plot.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this tense horror film is the first one from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan to earn an R rating -- and for good reason. It's loaded with violent, bloody images and is much more graphic than the PG-13 movies that have earned him a following among teens. It revolves around people falling victim to an airborne toxin that induces suicidal behavior -- consequently, there's a constant stream of self-inflicted deaths throughout the film, many of them quite graphic (falling from heights, gunshots, car crashes, heads going through windows, etc.).
A Lot or A Little?
The parents’ guide to what’s in this movie.
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Additional Info
- Genre:Sci-Fi, Thriller, Disaster Movie
- Release Date:June 13, 2008
- Highest Available for Purchase:HD