In 1999, there was a film released about a child who sees ghosts that was a massive hit. Five weeks after it came out, “Stir of Echoes” was released.
“There’s no way that ‘The Sixth Sense’ wasn’t going to be a massive hit,” remembers Kevin Bacon. “Both myself and [writer-director David Koepp] — and probably our agents — begged them to put ‘Stir of Echoes’ out first.”
Their plea fell on dead — I mean deaf — ears, and Koepp’s second directorial effort earned $23 million in theaters against the $672 million Shyamalan’s thriller eventually grossed. Yet “Stir of Echoes” was well-received by critics and went on to
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