Elliott (Mark Wahlberg) and Alma (Zooey Deschanel) take a closer look at an encroaching and powerful threat. Photo credit: Zade Rosenthal TM and © Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved. Not for sale or duplication.
“Science will come up with some reason to put in the books, but in the end it’ll be just a
theory. We will fail to acknowledge that there are forces at work beyond our
understanding.”
– from THE HAPPENING
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.
It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come out of nowhere. In a matter of
minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their
shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities. What is causing this sudden, total
breakdown of human behavior? Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an experiment gone
wrong, a diabolical toxic weapon, an out-of-control virus? Is it being transmitted by air, by
water . . . how?
For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Academy Award®
nominee 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 (Emmy® Award winner JOHN LEGUIZAMO) and his 8 year-old
daughter Jess (ASHLYN SANCHEZ), heading 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. This terrifying, invisible killer cannot be outrun. It is
only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there - and just
what has unleashed this force that threatens the future of humanity — that he discovers a
sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.
Synopsis courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
The Happening opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, June 13th. The following are images and the trailer from the movie.
Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez, left), her father Julian (John Leguizamo) and Elliott (Mark Wahlberg) watch the latest news about a widening crisis. Photo credit: Zade Rosenthal TM and © Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved. Not for sale or duplication.
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