Lady in the Water Movie Review

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban

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Review Summary

A humble building manager named Cleveland Heep, who accidentally slips and fall in the pool and saved by a strange young woman from danger and he finds out that she is in fact a narf. Narf is a character from bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous trip from our world back to her world.

Cleveland along with his fellow tenants soon starts to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland starts to fall deeper in love with the strange narf woman, he join hands with the tenants to defend his new fragile friend narf from the fatal creatures that reside in this fable and are firm to stop her from returning home.
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - fantasy story on present day Earth
Horror film? Yes
Kind of Horror Story - the monster chased me!

Main Character
Identity: - magical being, female
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - blonde
Hair type - (woman) long, curly
Body type - skinny (woman)
Unclothed? - Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more... - caring
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (man) very short/crewcut
Body type - average build (man)
Unclothed? - chest
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - general circumstances

Setting
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Water? Yes
Big cities? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Tone of movie - upbeat
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing

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