The Village (2004)

The Village rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.6/10· 290K votes

Rotten Tomatoes43%

Metacritic44%

TMDb6.485/10· 5K votes

With 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.6/10 on IMDb and 44/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About The Village

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

Cast of The Village

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  Bryce Dallas Howard

  as Ivy Walker

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  Joaquin Phoenix

  as Lucius Hunt

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  Adrien Brody

  as Noah Percy

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  William Hurt

  as Edward Walker

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  Sigourney Weaver

  as Alice Hunt

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  Brendan Gleeson

  as August Nicholson

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  Cherry Jones

  as Mrs. Clack

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  Celia Weston

  as Vivian Percy

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  John Christopher Jones

  as Robert Percy

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  Frank Collison

  as Victor

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  Jayne Atkinson

  as Tabitha Walker

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  Judy Greer

  as Kitty Walker

The Village facts

Budget

$60M

Box office

$256.7M

Our take on The Village

M. Night Shyamalan's 2004 mystery unfolds in a sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet ringed by woods the villagers dare not enter. When a headstrong young man tries to break past the settlement's boundaries, his choice triggers a chain of unsettling events that shakes the tightly ordered community to its core. Shyamalan works in his signature register—hushed atmosphere, muted colors and a creeping sense that the world is not quite what it seems—prioritizing dread and mood over overt shocks. It suits patient viewers who enjoy a slow-building thriller driven by secrets and social tension, and who don't mind a director who trades in withheld information. Restraint is its central strategy.