Directed by:
M. Night Shyamalan

Starring:
Bruce Willis as Dr. Malcom Crowe
Toni Collette as Lynn Sear
Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear
Olivia Williams as Anna Crowe
Donnie Wahlberg as Vincent Grey
Glenn Fitzgerald as Sean
Mischa Barton as Kyra Collins
Trevor Morgan as Tommy Tammisimo
Bruce Norris as Stanley Cunningham, Cole's Teacher
Peter Anthony Tambakis as Darren

 

Warning: If you have not seen this movie, you are now warned about spoilers.

• In the penny trick scene the front piece of Dr. Crowe's (Bruce Willis) hair is flopped over too the side of his face, but when he is done with the trick his hair is PERFECT! - Cerasi

• (Spoiler) M. Night and a producer on the DVD do a good job of clueing the audience in to the hints, "hows" and "whys". I still don't understand, though, how a ghost is able to find himself in places where he would have had to manipulate something to get inside (e.g. a door), or are there gaps in the ghost's conciousness...that they don't know they floated through a wall? (DVD) - aegix

• (Spoiler) Also, Night says that a ghost can't normally interact with the physical world (i.e. Willis didn't move a chair to sit down at the restaurant - the chair is already pulled back), but can if they have a strong emotional response (e.g. breaking the glass door at the antique shop). BUT, what about all the time he spends in the basement writing and reviewing notes and listening to the tape recorder? (DVD) - aegix

• Does anyone want a recorder capable to record dead people's voices? Dr Crowe has one! By the way, seems dead people are unable to see each other, but they're able to hear each other! - Martin

• (Spoiler) When cole goes into the dead girl's bedroom, you can see her under the bed before she grabs his leg! - me

• (Spoiler) (Plot holes) We are told that 1) ghosts cant interact with/touch things they weren't associated with the day they died (willis not moving chair in restaurant etc) and 2) they don't know they're dead. How come the little dead girl is able to grab Cole's leg (interacting with it essentially) and how did she know to show the video tape if she doesn't even know she's dead? Oh and also look carefully in the background each time willis goes into his house, his reflection can be seen in a mirror. - randybob

Commented Goofs

• When Malcolm is at the dinner with his wife, he tells her that he doesn't think Cole's mother is abusing him, but when they are at the hospital and the doctor says that he wants Lynn to speak to the social worker, Malcolm doesn't try to say anything about it. - kyara
  • (Spoiler) Comment: Malcolm can't talk to the Doctor for the same reason. At the end of the movie you see that while he was talking TO his wife, she clearly couldn't see him. I'd suggest watching the movie again. - Henry Hill
    • Comment: OK, I understand what you are saying about the doctor not being able to see Malcolm. But what I am asking is why doesn't Malcolm TRY to speak to the doctor, like he tried speaking to his wife? The doctor wouldn't hear him but at least Malcolm could try. But I guess they couldn't put that in the movie? :-P - kyara
      • Comment: Malcolm doesn't try to talk to the doctor about it Kyara, because if he did and the doctor and the mom ignored him it would have brought forth suspicion that could have ruined the movie. - recycledsanity

Corrected Goofs

• In the part of the movie where the main character is talking to the ghost backstage and the teacher comes and asks him who he was talking to he says that he was just rehearsing his lines but when he actually does go out on stage he has no lines in the play.
  • Correction: How do you know Cole had no lines? After all they only showed about 5 seconds of the play and I doubt that was how long it lasted. - kyara

• (Spoiler) Ok, Here's a good one. If Dr. Crowe is considered to be dead, how did he get a phone call that he needed to take (according to his secretary over the speaker phone) to leave Cole in the room by himself? Ha, someone answer that!!! - Inspecter Gadget
  • Correction: You hear the speaker phone on his recorder, and this recording was when he was teaching that guy who broke into his house at the beginning of the movie when the guy was little (the guy was not Cole). He was not dead then. - yonse

Explained Goofs - (all spoilers)

• (Spoiler) Okay, how does Bruce Willis get on the bus if he is a "dead person"? Doesn't he have to pay, and wouldn't both of them think it's strange no one notices him get on the bus? I'm thinking the boy could have paid for him, but that's not very likely. - kyara
  • Explanation: Noone can see him but Cole, so getting on the bus isn't a problem. - Henry Hill
  • Explanation: Every one keeps asking about Malcom. Well after he gets shot he dies and the only one who can see him is the little boy. I watched very close, no one ever talks to Malcom. Only the kid. It's still a great movie.
  • Explanation: Remember in the movie it was explained that most of the dead people wouldn't be or wasn't aware that they were dead because they were used to living. Malcolm was one of those kinds of ghost, so when Malcolm was getting on the bus he was so used to living that it was a normal thing for him to do- without him thinking or noticing anything strange (until the end of the movie). - Didi
  • Explanation: Well, he (Willis) is a ghost. He could go through the wall/doors of the bus as ghosts can. No one, with the exception of Cole, can see or hear him. - JP
    

• (Spoiler) Right before Cole comes home, we see Malcolm and Cole's mother sitting in the living room. They don't talk to each other, but it looks as though they've previously engaged in a conversation. The one thing I don't understand is how Malcolm got into the house. Could someone please explain this? - Nate
  • (Spoiler) Addition: There's a lot of things to wonder about here, like how does he get to other places he has to go? What if he has to buy something? And doesn't he wonder why no one notices him? I don't know. Maybe ghost don't?!? :-P - kyara
  • (Spoiler) Explanation: Ghosts see what they want to see. He could've gotten into the house any way he could, and it wouldn't seem strange to him because he probably didn't realize anything was strange. He wouldn't see anything that he didn't want to see. So he could have imagined that he got into the house, had a normal conversation with Cole's mother, and knocked on the door and had his mother answer the door even if she didn't, because he didn't know he was dead, and he thought he was living, so he could've thought that that had happened. Cole explains it to him while he's in the hospital (I think he's in the hospital.) he says stuff such as, "They don't know they're dead," and "They see what they want to see." - Donica
  • (Spoiler) Explanation: Bruce is a ghost! He experiences existence when needed. He feels no lack of continuity and can thus be where ever he is needed when ever he is needed. The film is as much about the boys struggle as it is about Bruces afterlife. - murky

• (Spoiler) Does anyone think that it is weird that the little dude that sees ghost is always cold around dudes but whenever he is around Bruce Willis you can never see his breath.
  • Explanation: The reason it doesn't get cold in the room when the doctors around is because it only gets cold around ghost who are angry about something. I heard this somewhere on the movie or in an interview I don't remember. - $$$$!!!!!!~~~~$$$$!!!!!
  • Explanation: It gets cold when ghosts are angry/upset, etc. It isn't cold when Bruce is around, well because he's not angry or upset. However at the end, remember it showed his wife's breath cold when she was asleep on the couch during the wedding video... it was because then, he was there, and he was angry and upset as he learned he was dead. - JP

• (Spoiler) If Cole has the miraculous, yet terrifying ability to unite with those who have passed, why doesn't he realize that Bruce (Malcolm) is dead? (Basically, if Cole can seee dead people, and Malcolm, or Bruce, is dead, why doesn't Cole realize that Bruce is dead?? - Maxfield (Anonymous)
  • Correction: Well he can also see real people and maybe he does know that he is dead and just doesn't tell him there are a lot of explanations but I don't want to go through them all. - Nikki
  • Explanation: He probably does realize he's dead but also realizes that Malcolm might have the answers, and doesn't want to scare him off. - Ignite
  • Explanation: In the movie, Cole says that most dead people don't even realize that they're dead and don't believe they're dead when told.
    • Explanation: Actually, he DOES know he's dead all along, but he thinks that he can help him so he doesn't say anything. He hints though, and at the same time, helps his with his problems. At the end he tells him to talk to him wife while she sleeps, therefore finally revealing the secret. - bacherz