Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, and Ashlyn Sanchez in The Happening (2008)

The Happening

Movie#2993ā–²2072008• R• 1h 31m
AdventureDramaSci-FiThriller
⭐ 5.0 / 10(226,832)

A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide.

Rated
R
Runtime
1h 31m
Released
2008
Country
United States, India

Details

Release year: 2008

Storyline

A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide.

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Did you know

• Mark Wahlberg admitted that he regrets working on this movie, but said, "You can't blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook."

• The movie was shot completely in sequence.

• M. Night Shyamalan: The voice of "Joey," who calls Alma a few times throughout the movie. The audience never sees him nor learns of his fate.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $64,506,874

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $30,517,109 (2008-06-15)

User reviews

⭐ 6/10

Nature fights back

šŸ‘ 94 Ā· 1/7/2019
⭐ 6/10

Unfairly maligned

šŸ‘ 15 Ā· 10/27/2021
⭐ 4/10

It's not happening

šŸ‘ 220 Ā· 1/30/2009

Technical specs

Sound mix
SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect ratio
1.85 : 1
Color
Color

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