Others, The

Drama, Horror, Thriller

Nicole Kidman	Grace
Christopher Eccleston	Charles
Fionnula Flanagan	Mrs. Mills
Elaine Cassidy	Lydia
Eric Sykes	Mr. Tuttle
Alakina Mann	Anne
James Bentley	Nicholas
Renée Ashershon	Old Lady
Gordon Reid	Assistant
Keith Allen	Mr. Marlish
Jennifer Aspen
Devon Odessa
John Livingston
Hal Linden
Bodhi Elfman
Phillip Rhys
Derrex Brady
Danny Bergen
Danny Cistone
Gloria Gifford
Jack Kyle
William Lampley
Michelle Fairley	Mrs. Marlish
Renée Asherson	Old Lady

Director	Alejandro Amenábar; Travis Fine
Producer	Travis Fine; Julie O'Neill; Fernando Bovaira; Park Sunmin; Eduardo Chapero-Jackson
Writer	Travis Fine; Alejandro Amenábar

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