Unbreakable (2000) on Netflix
PG-1320001h 46mDramaMysterySci-Fi
A train wreck leaves security guard David Dunn unharmed while everyone else dies. Elijah Price, a comic book specialist with fragile bones, contacts him with a theory about real-life superheroes.
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- IMDb7.3/10471,598 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes70%
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Plot summary
David Dunn survives the derailment of the Eastrail 177 outside Philadelphia without a single injury. The other passengers are killed, making him the only person to walk away from the wreck. A note left on his car asks when he last fell ill and invites him to an art gallery called Limited Edition, run by Elijah Price. Elijah, born with a disease that leaves his bones extremely fragile, believes that if he stands at one extreme of human frailty, someone unbreakable must stand at the other. David visits the gallery with his son Joseph, who already treats his father as a superhero, and leaves unsettled by the idea. He insists he is ordinary.
Cast
- Johnny Hiram Jamisonas Elijah Age 13
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Unbreakable (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Disney purchased M. Night Shyamalan's screenplay at a reported “spec script record” of $5 million, and he was given another $5 million to direct the film himself.
- In 2018 Shyamalan confirmed that two unnamed extras who bump into David Dunn outside a stadium are secretly younger versions of Kevin Wendell Crumb and Penelope Crumb, the characters later fully introduced in Split.
- Julianne Moore was originally cast as David Dunn's wife Audrey but dropped out to play Clarice Starling in Hannibal, so Robin Wright took the role instead.
- Samuel L. Jackson requested that his walking stick be made of glass to make his character more menacing, and using purple as Mr. Glass's color to David Dunn's green was also Jackson's idea.
- Shyamalan wanted Disney to market the film as a comic book movie, but the studio insisted on selling it as a supernatural thriller like The Sixth Sense, and more than 15 minutes were cut from the finished film in post-production.
- The film sold 2.3 million DVD units in the US and was 2001's top DVD rental, pushing its combined worldwide box office and US home-video revenue to $371,028,653, a 495 percent return on its budget.
- Quentin Tarantino praised the film as a “brilliant retelling of the Superman mythology”, and said it contains what he considers to be Bruce Willis's best performance.
