Unbreakable (2000)

Unbreakable rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.3/10· 465K votes

Rotten Tomatoes71%

Metacritic62%

TMDb7.143/10· 10K votes

With 71% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 62/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Unbreakable

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

Cast of Unbreakable

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  Bruce Willis

  as David Dunn

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  Samuel L. Jackson

  as Elijah Price

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  Robin Wright

  as Audrey Dunn

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  Spencer Treat Clark

  as Joseph Dunn

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  Charlayne Woodard

  as Elijah's Mother

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  Eamonn Walker

  as Dr. Mathison

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  Leslie Stefanson

  as Kelly

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  Johnny Hiram Jamison

  as Elijah Age 13

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  Michaelia Carroll

  as Babysitter

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  Bostin Christopher

  as Comic Book Clerk

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  Elizabeth Lawrence

  as School Nurse

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  Davis Duffield

  as David Dunn Age 20

Unbreakable facts

Budget

$75M

Box office

$248.1M

Collection

Eastrail 177 Trilogy

Our take on Unbreakable

M. Night Shyamalan's 2000 drama-thriller treats the superhero idea as something quiet and mournful rather than spectacular. An ordinary man walks away unscathed from a train crash that kills everyone else aboard, and that impossible survival draws him toward Elijah Price, a man whose bones break like glass. From that pairing the film builds a slow, deliberate mystery about purpose, fragility and what it might mean to be genuinely extraordinary. It suits patient viewers who prefer mood, restraint and a grounded tone over action, and who like origin stories told as character study. Come for the premise, stay for the melancholy and the deliberate, methodical unfolding.