
It almost has the cadence of a joke: What do you get when you cross Nicholas Sparks and M Night Shyamalan? A love story with a twist.
There is, however, nothing remotely facetious about Remain, an out-of-the-blue, did-I-hear-that-correctly project that pairs Shyamalan, director of The Sixth Sense and master of the cinematic rug-pull, with Sparks, the bestselling author known for tear-jerking romance novels such as The Notebook.