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{{quote| ''"Plastic. I'm talking to a plastic plant. I'm still doing it."''}}

 

 

Something big is going down: people all over the East Coast start to kill themselves for no reason, and there's no explanation as to the mass suicides. High school teacher Elliot Moore ([[Mark Wahlberg]]) tries to escape New York City -- where the suicides began -- with his wife Alma ([[Zooey Deschanel]]), fellow teacher Julian (John Leguizamo), and Julian's daughter Jess.

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Alma, more or less, spends most of the movie in [[Dull Surprise]] mode, and states at the beginning "I don't like to show my emotions."

** It's almost impossible to listen to that line without thinking that it wasn't originally in the script, and that Shyamalan just added it in light of Deschanel's famously emotionless acting.

* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: The plants suddenly evolve the ability to emit neurotoxin. All species of plants. ''[[You Fail Biology Forever|Simultaneously.]]''

* [[Expospeak]]: [[Alan Ruck]] explains the symptoms at the beginning to the other teachers. Later, the nursery owner explains plants' ability to release chemicals. Mrs. Jones explains the speaker in the springhouse.