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Also known as Sixth Sense, 6th Sense

1999 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

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The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American film directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan. The cast includes Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, and Olivia Williams. James Newton Howard composed the music, while Tak Fujimoto served as director of photography. Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Barry Mendel produced the film, which was distributed by Touchstone Pictures and Netflix.

The movie is classified as a horror, thriller, drama, and mystery film. It was filmed in Philadelphia and features a runtime of 107 minutes. The production companies involved include Spyglass Media Group, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Hollywood Pictures, and Barry Mendel Productions. The film received nominations for the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director.

The Sixth Sense has a box office revenue of 672,806,292 against a budget of 40,000,000. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.2 based on 1,146,344 votes and a TMDb vote average of 7.952 from 12,831 votes. The tagline for the film is "Not every gift is a blessing."

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8.0

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

Released: 1999-08-06107 minDir: M. Night ShyamalanMystery, Thriller, DramaBudget: $40.0MBox office: $673M

Cast

  • Bruce Willis as Malcolm Crowe
  • Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear
  • Toni Collette as Lynn Sear
  • Olivia Williams as Anna Crowe
  • Trevor Morgan as Tommy Tammisimo
  • Donnie Wahlberg as Vincent Gray

Themes

  • dying and death
  • child abuse
  • philadelphia, pennsylvania
  • sense of guilt
  • afterlife
  • marriage crisis
  • loss of loved one
  • confidence
  • psychology
  • paranormal phenomena

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Ratings

IMDb

8.2/10

1,146,344 votes

Year
1999
Runtime
107 min
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Encyclopedic overview

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Bruce Willis as a child psychologist whose patient (Haley Joel Osment) claims he can see and talk to the dead.

Released by Buena Vista Pictures through its Hollywood Pictures banner on August 6, 1999, The Sixth Sense was well received by critics and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Shyamalan, Best Supporting Actor for Osment, and Best Supporting Actress for Toni Collette. The film established Shyamalan as a preeminent filmmaker of thrillers and introduced the cinema public to his traits, most notably his affinity for twist endings.

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