June 02, 2008

Movie Minute: The Happening

By News Desk

From director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) comes a lightning-paced, heart-pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind . . . but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.

For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) what matters most is finding a way to escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon.

Though he and his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot's math teacher friend Julian (John Leguizamo) and his 8 year-old daughter Jess.

They head for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they'll be out of reach of the grisly, ever-growing attacks.

Yet it soon becomes clear that no one - and nowhere - is safe.

Opening in cinemas across Asia on the following dates:

>> Korea: June 13
>> Singapore: June 13
>> Malaysia: June 13
>> Philippines: June 13
>> Thailand: June 13
>> Indonesia: June 13
>> Hong Kong: June 13
>> Taiwan: June 13