Principal Cast Bruce Willis -- David Dunn Samuel L. Jackson -- Elijah Price Robin Wright Penn -- Audrey Dunn Spencer Treat Clark -- Joseph Dunn James Handy -- Priest M. Night Shyamalan -- Stadium Drug Dealer Leslie Stefanson -- Kelly Ratings Ratings are based on Rick's four star system. One star - the commercials are more entertaining than the viewing. Two stars - watch if you have nothing better to do. Three stars - good solid entertainment. Four stars - you never dreamed viewing could be this good.

It was a cold and drizzly Sunday. Like most Sundays, I was driving my kids to the movies, this time to see the new film from the creator of The Sixth Sense (***).

There are two theaters in the town where I live -- one old, one new. In the old one, the seats are broken, so they slant downward, and sitting on them for an hour gives me a terrible backache. In the new theater they have stadium seating, but the screens are about the size of a wall television set. So we usually drive forty-five minutes to Tinseltown. It's a pleasant drive, and it gives us some time to talk.

We got there just as the previews were starting. There are usually about fifteen minutes of previews. Some of the previews look pretty good, especially Pearl Harbor, but after awhile I whispered to my son sitting next to me (my other son usually sits way down in front), "You know what's wrong with these previews?"

"Yeah," he said. "They give away way too much of the movie."

Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon.