Unbreakable 

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Bruce Willis as David Dunn, a former football player with superhuman strength, and invulnerability who sees the crimes of those whom he touches
  • Davis Duffield as 20-year-old David
• Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price/Mr. Glass, a comic book theorist, and deranged domestic terrorist with brittle bone disease
  • Johnny Hiram Jamison as 13-year-old Elijah
• Robin Wright as Audrey Dunn, David’s wife and a physical therapist
  • Laura Regan as 20-year-old Audrey
• Spencer Treat Clark as Joseph Dunn, David’s son who believes his father is a superhero
• Charlayne Woodard as Mrs. Price, Elijah’s mother
• Eamonn Walker as Dr. Mathison
• Leslie Stefanson as Kelly
• Bostin Christopher as Comic Book Clerk
• Elizabeth Lawrence as School Nurse
• James Handy as Priest
• Chance Kelly as Orange Suit Man
• Michael Kelly as Dr. Dubin
• Joey Hazinsky as Five-Year-Old Boy/Kevin Wendell Crumb
• Dianne Cotten Murphy as Woman Walking By/Penelope Crumb
• M. Night Shyamalan as Stadium Drug Dealer

Storyline:

David Dunn (Willis) is taking a train from New York City back home to Philadelphia after a job interview that didn’t go well when his car jumps the tracks and collides with an oncoming engine, with David the only survivor among the 131 passengers on board. Astoundingly, David is not only alive, he hardly seems to have been touched. As David wonders what has happened to him and why he was able to walk away, he encounters a mysterious stranger, Elijah Prince (Samuel L. Jackson), who explains to David that there are a certain number of people who are “unbreakable” — they have remarkable endurance and courage, a predisposition toward dangerous behavior, and feel invincible but also have strange premonitions of terrible events. Is David “unbreakable”? And if he is, what are the physical and psychological ramifications of this knowledge?

About Movie:

Unbreakable is an American superhero thriller written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, and Robin Wright. It serves as the first film in the Unbreakable trilogy.

Shyamalan structured the narrative to follow a comic book’s traditional three-part story arc. With the origin story in place, Shyamalan wrote the screenplay specifically for Willis as David Dunn, with Samuel L. Jackson in mind for the role of Elijah Price. He approached Willis for the lead role during the filming of The Sixth Sense.

Principal photography took place from April to July 2000, primarily in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which also serves as the film’s setting. Shyamalan and cinematographer Eduardo Serra used specific camera angles and visual motifs to mimic the appearance of comic book panels, reinforcing the movie’s superhero tone.

Released on November 22, 2000, Unbreakable was met with generally positive reviews. It was praised for its direction, screenplay, cinematography, emotional depth, and James Newton Howard’s score. The film has since developed a strong cult following and is recognized as a pioneering, grounded take on the superhero genre. Time magazine ranked it among the top ten superhero films of all time in 2011, and Quentin Tarantino listed it among his top 20 films released between 1992 and 2009.

Shyamalan initially intended to market Unbreakable as a comic book movie, but Disney preferred to promote it as a supernatural thriller similar to The Sixth Sense. More than 15 minutes of footage was cut from the film, later included in the DVD release.

After years of discussion around a follow-up, Split (2017) was released as a thematic sequel, with Willis making a surprise cameo as David Dunn. The success of Split led to the immediate development of Glass (2019), completing the trilogy and solidifying Unbreakable as the first installment in the Unbreakable series.

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