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M. Night Shyamalan

Born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan on 6th August 1970 in Mahé, Pondicherry, India and raised in the suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. . Night Shyamalan is the son of two doctors and his passion for film-making began at the age of 8 when he was given his first Super-8 camera. His idol is said to be Steven Spielberg.

His very first film was Praying with Anger in 1992 and it was based on a trip he had taken to his country of birth, India. His second movie Wide Awake in 1998 he wrote and directed himself and it was shot in a Philadelphia Catholic school he attended at an earlier age even though his family was a different religion, they sent him there due to the schools strict discipline.

He is married to Bhavna Vaswani since 1993 whom he has had 2 children with.

According to IMDB.com he frequently uses Philadelphia as the backdrop in his movies as seen in Wide Awake (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002) and The Village (2004).

He is well know to have some sort of twist at the end of his films, and also having some sort of shot of peoples reflection in various objects.

He has made cameo appearances in all his movies. His movies also tend to have some sort of religiously themed events.

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M. Night Shyamalan - news / articles

Perry still embarrassed by Shyamalan mix-up - 19 April 2009
-Actor Matthew Perry was once left red-faced after spending a whole evening talking to director M. Night Shyamalan - before realising the man was a look-a-like.- -The former Friends star first met the filmmaker at a Hollywood awards show during promotion for 1999 movie The

M. Night Shyamalan lines up next project - 7 March 2007
e and Signs has announced his next project which he wrote and will make in time for a summer 2008 release.-Variety reports that M. Night Shyamalan will be working on a thriller entitled The Happening, about a family who go on the run from a humanity-threatening crisis.-And

M. Night Shyamalan - what members say

Unbreakable review by from W. Sussex

Shyamalan is unstoppable 22 September 2003
...Although the film isn't perfect (and how many truly are), M. Night Shyamalan succeeds in producing a worthy successor to The Sixth Sense. It's especially thrilling for those who...

The Sixth Sense review by A customer from Newcastle, England

Awsome Film 25 August 2006
...just how intricate and accurate the plot is, and notice the details and lengths M. Night Shyamalan has gone to. Watch this film!! Go!! ...

Signs review by A customer from My sofa

Read this Sign 23 May 2005
...M. Night Shyamalan once again fails to repeat the success of Sixth Sense. The prolonged build up was similar to that of The Village which was also tedious and you knew the outco...

M. Night Shyamalan - filmography

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The Happening on DVD (2008)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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M. Night Shyamalan directs this thriller about a father (Mark Walhberg) who tries to escape with his family after an apocalyptic event. THE HAPPENING costars Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo.

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Happening, The - BLU-RAY Version (2008)
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Betty Buckley, Mark Wahlberg
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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In THE HAPPENING, M. Night Shyamalan serves up a slice of apocalyptic strangeness. The film opens onto New York City's Central Park with a crowd of people enjoying an idyllic summer day. The carefree scene soon takes a terrifying turn, when out of nowhere, hordes of people begin to commit suicide ..read more »

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Lady In The Water on DVD (2006)
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Kindly caretaker Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti, SIDEWAYS) discovers an elfin creature named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard, THE VILLAGE) living in the swimming pool of the apartment complex where he works. It soon becomes apparent to Cleveland that Story is not of this world, and that her mission to ..read more »

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Lady In The Water - BLU-RAY Version (2006)
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Kindly caretaker Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti, SIDEWAYS) discovers an elfin creature named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard, THE VILLAGE) living in the swimming pool of the apartment complex where he works. It soon becomes apparent to Cleveland that Story is not of this world, and that her mission to ..read more »

Rate this: 55% from 1,296 member

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Lady In The Water - HD DVD Version (2006)
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Kindly caretaker Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti, SIDEWAYS) discovers an elfin creature named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard, THE VILLAGE) living in the swimming pool of the apartment complex where he works. It soon becomes apparent to Cleveland that Story is not of this world, and that her mission to ..read more »

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The Village on DVD (2004)
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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M. Night Shyamalan's THE VILLAGE finds the renowned writer-director crafting a suspenseful story of a small community whose inhabitants are plagued by fear of the unknown forest that surrounds them. For years, they have kept a truce with mysterious creatures in the woods by vowing never to breach a ..read more »

Rate this: 57% from 57,956 members

Godzilla And Other Movie Monsters (2003)
Starring: Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Lesley Stahl
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Scenes from a selection of Godzilla movies. Opponents in battle include Mothra, Hedora and Ghidrah.

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Signs on DVD (2002)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mel Gibson, Cherry Jones
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are changing the lives of the Hess family. Things go awry when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his brother, ..read more »

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Signs - BLU-RAY Version (2002)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mel Gibson, Cherry Jones
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Reverend Graham Hess discovers a five hundred foot crop circle on his farmland which creates a media frenzy. Hess and his family tries to determine what the crop circle means...

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Unbreakable on DVD (2000)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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UNBREAKABLE stars Bruce Willis as David Dunne, a Philadelphia security guard and the sole survivor of a disasterous train wreck. Not only is David still alive after the crash--he's completely unharmed. After this miraculous incident, he's contacted by the mysterious Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson),..read more »

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Unbreakable - BLU-RAY Version (2000)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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UNBREAKABLE stars Bruce Willis as David Dunne, a Philadelphia security guard and the sole survivor of a disasterous train wreck. Not only is David still alive after the crash--he's completely unharmed. After this miraculous incident, he's contacted by the mysterious Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson),..read more »

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The Sixth Sense on DVD (1999)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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In this chilling psychological thriller, eight-year-old Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: He is visited by ghosts. A helpless and reluctant channel, Cole is terrified by threatening visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. Confused by his paranormal powers, ..read more »

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Sixth Sense, The - BLU-RAY Version (1999)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Willis) is a successful child psychologist who is shaken by the sudden reappearance and suicide of a former patient. Months later Crowe encounters Cole Sear (Osment), a troubled young boy who bears a similarity to his earlier patient. Dr. Crowe must try to save Cole, not only for ..read more »

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Wide Awake on DVD (1988)
Starring: Joseph Cross, Dana Delany, Denis Leary
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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A Catholic schoolboy loses his grandfather and begins to have doubts about God.

Rate this: 54% from 262 members

The Last Airbender (2010)
Starring: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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The story follows the adventures of Aang, a ten year old successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.

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