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| Movie Description THE OTHERS begins with a close-up of a woman screaming. By the time this intense film ends, everyone watching it will be screaming and gasping. Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a woman raising two children by herself in a creepy mansion. World War II is over, but Grace's husband never returned. Meanwhile, the two children, Anne and Nicholas, must constantly stay in the dark because they are deathly allergic to light. Then one day three people show up to take over for Grace's disappeared staff, and trouble starts to brew. The odd trio--an aging nanny, an elderly gardener, and a young mute girl--seems to have a slightly different agenda than Grace and the children do. But when Anne starts talking to strange, unseen people, the scares start building to an incredible climax. Alejandro Amenábar's highly stylized English-language debut is one of the better haunted-house films of the past few years. Not only did Amenábar write and direct the film but he composed the eerie music as well. Nicole Kidman is outstanding as the overprotective mother trying to save her children, while Fionnula Flanagan excels as the nanny with a deep, dark secret. Because the children must remain in darkness, Grace must lock every door behind her, to make sure that the children don't accidentally enter a brightly lit room; it is a marvelous horror-film device that Amenábar uses to perfection.
Notes DVD Features: Region 1 2-Disc Set Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Surround - French Dolby Surround - Spanish Additional Release Material: Behind the Scenes Footage Making-of - 1. "A Look Inside The Others" Featurette - 1. Visual EFX Featurette 2. XP Featurette Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus, Theatrical release: August 10, 2001 Editorial Reviews Box Office - p.56 - Annlee Ellingson Variety - p.43-52 - Dennis Harvey Entertainment Weekly - p.44-5 - Owen Gleiberman New York Times - p.E1 - A. O. Scott USA Today - p.6E - Mike Clark Los Angeles Times - p.2 - Kenneth Turan Sight and Sound - p.53-4 - Paul Julian Smith Total Film - p.88-9 - Jamie Graham | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||
Top Reviews  The Others -- a Ghostly Story with Nicole KidmanReview created: 11/11/06(updated 05/19/07) by:  6 of 6 people found this review helpful. Finally, a ghost story of substance! Grace (Kidman), the mother of two severely photophobic children, Anne and Nicolas, lives in an eerie isolated mansion just after WWII ends. It's quite a burden on a young and attractive mother to keep the sunlight out of every room her children pass through or stay in, let alone keep up a huge estate that she holds out hope for her war veteran husband to return to and keep with her. After placing an ad in the newspaper for servants, three such servants arrive on the doorstep. When Grace answers the door, she believes they have come to answer the ad and to work for her. Instead, the trio are the former tenants of the mansion with alterior motives. When Grace's little girl, Anne, keeps talking to what her extra-Catholic home-schooling mother believes is a child's fantasy playmate, Nicolas (who is the younger child) is scared beyond compare. Both children claim that there is another little boy living in the house. They can hardly be disbelieved by their spiritual mother because of the strange sounds in the house indicating something or someone is hiding and dwelling inside of their home. The interesting point is that the nanny has no difficulty at all believing the children, and the three keep that secret from Grace. As in the classics "Gaslight, with Ingrid Bergman, and "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte," with Bette Davis, Nicole Kidman finds herself in a very similar sort of situation where inanimate objects become animated, voices haunt her, and she begins growing more and more skeptical of reality. The film is a tension building, haunted house, ghost thriller. Though it is rated PG, I found it more suitable for an adult because this one could give smaller children nightmares. Kidman gives a first rate dramatic performance based upon nothing but her remarkable acting ability, and not her good looks! She is comparable to Bergman and Davis as an actor, that's why I previously mentioned both of them. Review ID: 10000000001212990 Was this review helpful? Report this review Great Suspense movie!!Review created: 09/02/06 by: 5 of 7 people found this review helpful. Nicole Kidman really portrays this part all the way. twists & turns that you would NEVER expect. Once you have watched this movie, you will go back & see it again. I would say more but I don't want to give away one of the best plots I have ever seen. Review ID: 10000000001709280 Was this review helpful? Report this review Reviews THE OTHERS(2002,DVD)Review created: 07/15/08 by: "SUSPENSEFUL" "A WICKED TWIST OF AN ENDING!" SOONER OR LATER THEY WILL FIND YOU. " SIZZLES WITH SUSPENSE, SHOCKS AND SURPRISES!" SCREEN SENSATION (NICOLE KIDMAN) DELIVERS AN UTTERLY UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCE IN THIS SCARY AND STYLISH SUSPENSE THRILLER! WHILE AWAITING HER HUSBAND'S RETURN FROM WAR, GRACE AND HER TWO YOUNG CHILDREN LIVE AN UNUSUALLY ISOLATED EXISTENCE BEHIND THE LOCKED DOORS AND DRAWN CURTAINS OF A SECLUDED MANSION. THEN AFTER, THREE MYSTERIOUS SERVANTS ARRIVE AND IT BECOMES CHILLINGLY CLEAR THAT THERE IS FAR MORE TO THIS HOUSE THAN CAN BE SEEN, GRACE FINDS HERSELF IN A TERRIFYING FIGHT TO SAVE HER CHILDREN AND KEEP HER SANITY! THE UNPREDICTABLE TWISTS AND TURNS OF THIS COMPELLING HIT WILL KEEP YOU GUESSING AS IT KEEPS YOU RIVETED TO THE EDGE OF YOU SEAT! Review ID: 10000000007982188 Was this review helpful? Report this review  The Others DVDWhat can I say? I love this movie - - - can't explain why. I love Nicole Kidman and her character in this movie. The first time I saw this movie I was totally thrown by the ending just as I was by the Sixth Sense. Nicole is great in this movie as is the little girl who plays her daughter. Review ID: 10000000007913261 Was this review helpful? Report this review good product, fast serviceReview created: 07/06/08 by: riclee2000 ( 7 ) I bought this DVD awhile ago and I receive with one week. The product is new and I have no problem with it. Review ID: 10000000007834607 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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