The Sixth Sense is a 1999 ghost story and a psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about an ill and isolated boy played by Haley Joel Osment, and a child psychologist played by Bruce Willis, who tries to help him but is going through some personal troubles of his own. The film takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist, who returns home one night with his wife from an event in which he was honored an award. The two discover they are not alone, and a disturbed, almost naked man (Donnie Wahlberg) shows in the doorway of their bathroom with a gun. Crowe realizes that he is Vincent Gray, a former patient whom Crowe treated as a child for his hallucinations. He blames Malcolm for his inability to help him and shoots him in the stomach, and seconds later pulls the trigger on himself. Months later, Malcolm returns to work with another frightened boy, 9-year old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), with a similar condition to Vincent. Malcolm becomes dedicated to this patient, though he is not sure whether he is able to help him, after his failure with Vincent. Malcolm earns Cole's trust and Cole eventually tells him that he can see dead people. Though Crowe is skeptical at first, he eventually comes to believe that Cole is telling the truth. He continues to help Cole by suggesting that Cole tries to look at the positive side of his condition through communicating with the ghosts, by figuring out what unfinished business they have left on Earth. Cole tries to communicate with the ghost of one girl who shows up in his bedroom, and who seems to be sick. He finds out where the girl, Kyra Collins (Mischa Barton) lives, and going to her house he discovers a videotape where Kyra told him to find it, and gives it to Kyra's father. Watching it, Kyra's father realizes that when she was ill she had accidentally videorecorded her mother poisoning her food, which led to