Cleveland Heep (PAUL GIAMATTI) has been quietly trying to disappear among the burned-out lightbulbs and broken appliances of the Cove apartment complex. But on the night that irrevocably changes his life, Cleveland finds someone else hiding in the mundane routine of the modest building – a mysterious young woman named Story (BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD), who has been living in the passageways beneath the building’s swimming pool. Cleveland discovers that Story is actually a “narf” – a nymph-like character from an epic bedtime story who is being stalked by vicious creatures determined to prevent her from making the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Story’s unique powers of perception reveal the fates of Cleveland’s fellow tenants, whose destinies are tied directly to her own, and they must work together to decipher a series of codes that will unlock the pathway to her freedom. But the window of opportunity for Story to return home is closing rapidly, and the tenants are putting their own lives at great risk to help her. Cleveland will have to face the demons that have followed him to the Cove – and the other tenants must seize the special powers that Story has brought out in them – if they hope to succeed in their daring and dangerous quest to save her world...and ours.

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Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Blinding Edge Pictures production, an M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN film: PAUL GIAMATTI, BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD in Lady in the Water, starring BOB BALABAN, JEFFREY WRIGHT, SARITA CHOUDHURY, FREDDY RODRIGUEZ, BILL IRWIN and JARED HARRIS. Lady in the Water is written, produced and directed by M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN. The producer is SAM MERCER, the director of photography is CHRISTOPHER DOYLE, H.K.S.C., the production designer is MARTIN CHILDS, the editor is BARBARA TULLIVER, A.C.E., the music is by JAMES NEWTON HOWARD, and the costume designer is BETSY HEIMANN. Soundtrack album on Decca.
Lady in the Water will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.