Rating: PG13
Genre:
Horror
Theatrical Release: 08/10/2001(USA)
Release Date: 07/07/2009
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DHMA/DD5.1
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: Alliance Canada
Spanish filmmaker
Alejandro Amenabar's first English-language production is a creepy period ghost story that continues in the vein of his earlier art house hit
Open Your Eyes (1997).
Nicole Kidman stars as
Grace, a devoutly religious mother of two ailing children who has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast while awaiting her husband's return from World War II, though he has been declared missing. Their children,
Anne (
Alakina Mann) and
Nicholas (
James Bentley), both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting
Grace's rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When
Anne begins claiming to see ghosts,
Grace at first believes her newly arrived family of eccentric servants to be responsible, but chilling events and visions soon lead her to believe that something supernatural is indeed going on.
The Others was released only a few months prior to
Vanilla Sky (2001), the American remake of
Alejandro's
Open Your Eyes (1997), ironically starring
Kidman's then-estranged husband
Tom Cruise.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
;)
