Another of my movie recommendations.

This one came out of nowhere. There was not a lot of hype behind it. The screenwriter / director was unknown. The main character was a kid played by Haley Joel Osment, equally unknown. Toni Collette, who knocked it out of the park as the mom, was an unknown Australian actress. Bruce Willis was the closest thing in it to a box office draw.

Without much studio push behind it, it did something like $300 million in box office in the U.S. It went off like a bomb. Word of mouth. People watched it again and again, looking for the little signs they had missed before. At the time I was hanging out on a screenwriters forum on Compuserve, thinking I might write one. There were lots of produced writers there. (One of them, John Hill, talked me out of it. He said if you're over 40 in this town and don't have any produced credits, they're not going to touch you. Write a novel instead). It was a somewhat jaded group and they were hyped up over this movie. It was probably the longest conversation ever there.

A huge secret is revealed about 2/3 of the way in. I sure won't reveal it. Let's just say every last detail of this movie clicks into place like a Swiss watch. If you are lucky enough not to have seen it yet, do yourself a favor.