The Others
A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.
- Director:Alejandro Amenábar
- Genre:Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
- Runtime:104 minutes
Cast
Nicole Kidman : Grace Stewart
Fionnula Flanagan : Mrs. Bertha Mills
Christopher Eccleston : Charles Stewart
Alakina Mann : Anne Stewart
James Bentley : Nicholas Stewart
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The scene is set in the British Crown Dependency of Jersey, in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) is a Catholic mother who lives with her two small children in a remote country house. The children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), have an uncommon disease characterized by photosensitivity (a special feature on the DVD indicates the disease is xeroderma pigmentosum), so their lives are structured around a series of complex rules designed to protect them from inadvertent exposure to sunlight.
The new arrival of three servants at the house—an aging nanny and servant named Mrs. Bertha Mills (Fionnula Flanagan), an elderly gardener named Mr. Edmund Tuttle (Eric Sykes), and a young mute girl named Lydia (Elaine Cassidy)—coincides with a number of odd events, and Grace begins to fear that they are not alone. Anne draws pictures of four people: a man, a woman, a boy called Victor and a scary old woman, all of whom she says she has seen in the house. A piano is heard from inside a locked room when no one is inside. Every time Grace enters and exits the room the door closes, but while she tries to figure out why, the door slams in her face knocking her to the floor. Grace tries hunting down the “intruders” with a shotgun but cannot find them. She scolds her daughter for nonsense about ghosts until she hears them herself. Eventually convincing herself that something unholy is in the house, she runs out in the fog to get the local priest to bless the house. Meanwhile, the servants, led by Mrs. Mills, are clearly up to something of their own. The gardener buries a headstone under autumn leaves, and Mrs. Mills listens faithfully to Anne’s allegations against her mother.
Out in the forest, Grace loses herself in the heavy fog, but miraculously discovers her husband Charles (Christopher Eccleston), who she thought had been killed in the war, and brings him back to the house. Charles is distant during the one day he spends in the house, and Mrs. Mills is heard telling Mr. Tuttle “I do not think he knows where he is.” Grace later sees the old woman from Anne’s drawing dressed up like her daughter. Grace says “You are not my daughter!” and attacks her. However, she finds that she has actually attacked her daughter instead. Anne refuses to be near her mother after this event, while Grace swears she saw the old woman. Mrs. Mills tells Anne that she too has seen the people but they cannot yet tell the mother because Grace will not accept what she is not ready for. Charles is stunned when Anne tells him the things her mother did to her. Charles says he must leave for the front and disappears again. After Charles leaves, Anne continues to see things, including Victor’s whole family and the old woman. Grace breaks down to Mrs. Mills, who claims that “sometimes the world of the dead gets mixed up with the world of the living”. The two women also find and examine a ‘book of the dead,’ which shows mourning portraits taken in the 19th century of recently deceased corpses. Read more
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