***** out of 5

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 2002)

Bruce Willis gives his most subdued and by far greatest performance in this haunting tale of the supernatural that will stick with you far after the credits role. Willis manages to impress me more each time he is in a movie (with the exception of Bandits). The story starts off with Malcome Crowe (Willis) a great childrens shrink who after getting an award comes home to find someone who he failed to help in his bathroom. We now fast forward to the present where Crowe is having marriage problems and is helping a young child (Haley Joel Osment in his Oscar nominated perfromance) who "sees dead people." Although it is a ghost story it is far from horror, but really a brillient drama that is more about love and friendship more than thinks that go bump in the night. The climax is one of the best I've seen and a brilliant script from writer/director M. Night Shamalyn will keep you guessing right up until the intese ending. I believe Bruce Willis was comptly ripped off for not at least recieveing an Oscar nod for his near perfect performance, who in my opinion was far superior to Kevin Spacey in American Beauty.