The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features the second-highest-grossing film at the box office, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette and Olivia Williams, The Sixth Sense grossed $672.8 million worldwide and was nominated for six Oscars.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-sixth-sense-1999), Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/2002/07/03/movie-review-sixth-sense/), and Charles Taylor in Salon (https://www.salon.com/1999/08/06/sixth/).

Special thanks to our guest Dick Walsh, former film chairman of AMC Theatres.

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1999 installment, featuring our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides.