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...York City. No one's certain if it's a terrorist attack or a random quirk of nature, but "some kind of airborne chemical toxin" is spreading across the Northeast that's making people kill themselves. The pupils are sent home, and Elliot decides that he, his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) and his math-teacher buddy (John Leguizamo) will get out of town. The movie is the story of their flight...
...Happening Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan; rated R; out now A toxic breeze blows through the northeastern U.S., and people start killing themselves. A married couple (Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel) goes on the run to stay alive, but nothing can save the lamest sci-fi drama yet from the auteur of The Sixth Sense. Laced with bizarre histrionics and sluggish scare tactics, The Happening is an ill wind indeed...
...three-day stint at Woodstock ’99, a tour of an atomic bomb test site in Nevada, a profile of Bill “the Spaceman” Lee, and his personal ruminations on his marginalia of Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey...
...camera time. In terms of secondary characters, the movie takes a “Super Troopers”-esque stab at parodying small-town cops, with such amusing situations as shootouts at the Neighbors’ Market and interrogations concerning the differences between vans and minivans. It also typecasts Zooey Deschanel as the responsible yet humorless younger sister, and features some bizarre, seedy-underbelly types, like the thieving and Ultimate Fighting Champion-training LM Gazaniga (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Lake House”) and the entertainingly vulgar hardware store owner, Hesh (Judah Friedlander...
...lonely, struggling actress-in-the-big-city, Reese Holdin (Zooey Deschanel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) returns after many years to her suburban childhood home and estranged father, Don (Ed Harris, “A History of Violence”). A book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock”) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock...