Sixth Sense (The) (1999)

Joel Haley Osment in The Sixth Sense delivers a fine performance as a troubled boy who seems unreachable by his mother and psychologist (also played understatedly by Bruce Willis), even though he seems to be doing the best he can, given his secret torment. Willis eventually wins enough trust for Osment to divulge his harrowing and chilling secret. ("I see dead people" has been schmaltzed in enough comedy sketches that I can reveal that much about it.) The whole movie for me has an evident accord with the truth and a motion forward toward the truth, which is ultimately revealed in a plot twist that caught me by surprise. Five stars.