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Unbreakable
Release Date	November 22, 2000
Genre	Fantasy, thriller
Director	M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter	M. Night Shyamalan
Stars	Bruce Willis Samuel L. Jackson Robin Wright Penn Spencer Treat Clark Charlayne Woodard Eamonn Walker
Studio	Buena Vista Pictures Touchstone Pictures

Unbreakable is a 2000 film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. In 1999, writer/director Shyamalan wowed audiences with his suspenseful movie The Sixth Sense, which came complete with a twist ending that succeeded where so many have failed. The world had high expectations for his follow-up act a year later. Unbreakable (2000) brought back the star of "The Sixth Sense", Bruce Willis, but no magic can bring back an audience's innocence. No matter how much tension was generated in the first reel, the audience suspected the filmmaker had something up his sleeve, and that is usually enough to blunt the keen edge of a twist-in-the-making. "Unbreakable"'s worldwide gross came to less than half that of "The Sixth Sense", despite having a script as taut, direction as knowing, and a cast as magnetic. Its talented child star, Spencer Treat Clark, even had three names, just like the Oscar-nominated Haley Joel Osment.

Plot

Unbreakable tells the story of David Dunn (Willis), a man bewildered and rudderless in a world that seems to have no role for him. His unhappiness spills over into his relationship with his wife (Robin Wright Penn) and son (Clark). After David is the sole person to walk unscathed from a disastrous train wreck, he is contacted by Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), a man in every way David's opposite: rich, successful, and driven, but physically fragile. Having suffered since birth from a genetic defect, brittle bone syndrome, Elijah even has a childhood nickname, "Mr. Glass," that telegraphs his role as comic book villain. Elijah has spent his life searching for his opposite, the unbreakable man, and believes he has found him in David.

Makers of the flotilla of dismal movie adaptations of comic books could learn a lot from Unbreakable, a movie that breathes life into comic book tropes.

Cast

• Bruce Willis as David Dunn
• Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price
• Robin Wright Penn as Audrey Dunn
• Spencer Treat Clark as Joseph Dunn
• Charlayne Woodard as Elijah's Mother
• Eamonn Walker as Dr. Mathison
• Leslie Stefanson as Kelly
• Johnny Hiram Jamison as Elijah Age 13
• Michaelia Carroll as Babysitter
• Bostin Christopher as Comic Book Clerk
• Elizabeth Lawrence as School Nurse
• David Duffield as David Dunn Age 20
• Laura Regan as Audrey Inverso Age 20
• Chance Kelly as Orange Suit Man
• Michael Kelly as Doctor Dubin