The Sixth Sense 1999, Rated PG-13 Buena Vista Home Entertainment

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Starring Haley Joel Osment, Bruce Willis, et al. Released to DVD on March 28, 2000.

I'm pretty sure nobody was expecting much out of The Sixth Sense when previews of it began running last spring, for the simple reason that it combines two tastes that, up until now, seemed like vinegar and water to the film biz: Bruce Willis and a Little Kid. Malcolm Crowe (Willis) is a child psychologist who takes on little Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) as a patient after the kid tells him that he can see dead people. It all reminds Crowe of a previous case when a former patient ended up shooting him and ending his marriage. It could have been pretty typical stuff, however director M. Night Shyamalan doesn't only focus on the plot and its Twilight Zone-ish punch line, but on the little moments of atmosphere and genuine creepiness. The acting is good as well, Osment isn't annoying, Willis is restrained, and only in the occasional needlessly sappy scene does the film falter.

The Sixth Sense review was written by Paul Freitag.