The Others

Titolo originale: The Others
Regia: Alejandro Amenábar |
Anno: 2001
Origine: Spain | United States of America | France |
Generi: Horror Mistero Thriller
Tag: nightmare | suicide attempt | christianity | shotgun | servant | cemetery | world war ii | nanny | haunted house | bible | channel islands | mansion | soldier | gardener | photosensitivity | 1940s | spiritism | jersey island | baffled | ominous | supernatural thriller |
Cast: Nicole Kidman | Alakina Mann | Fionnula Flanagan | James Bentley | Eric Sykes | Christopher Eccleston | Elaine Cassidy | Renée Asherson | Gordon Reid | Keith Allen | Michelle Fairley | Alexander Vince | Ricardo López | Aldo Grilo |

Inghilterra, 1945. Grace ed i suoi figli vivono in una grande casa isolata. I bambini soffrono di una strana malattia che li costringe a vivere al riparo della luce. Ma ciò che si nasconde dietro ogni spiraglio aperto, nella penombra dei lunghi corridoi, non è solo una minaccia alla salute dei bambini...

Approfondimenti

In a pivotal scene, Grace finds a photograph album containing pictures of people she believed to be [...] D
Grace expresses the importance of locking one door before opening the next. Often it shows her unloc [...] D
The extra white makeup of the children's faces is a hint of the movie's twist. D
Alejandro Amenábar's first English language film. D
When Mrs. Mills and Mr. Tuttle are covering up the three gravestones, a Celtic cross can be seen eme [...] D
Nicole Kidman originally tried to persuade Alejandro Amenábar and the Weinstein brothers to find [...] D
Although the main characters are shown sitting at a table with food and drink, only one of them is s [...] D
Mateo Gil: screenwriter of Alejandro Amenábar's previous film Apri gli occhi (1997), as a dead ma [...] D
The house - supposedly on the island of Jersey - is actually located in the north of Spain (Santande [...] D
In the scene where Grace is loading the shotgun for the first time, she can be seen pausing in a rec [...] D
This is the highest grossing Spanish film ($209,700,000) in the all-time worldwide boxoffice history [...] D
The name of the gardener/caretaker - Mr. Tuttle - is the same as the gardener/caretaker at George C. [...] D
About 5,000 kids auditioned for the roles of Anne and Nicholas. James Bentley was cast right away, b [...] D
The ghostly image appearing over Grace's shoulder resolves itself into a somber face in a painting o [...] D
Anne's description of what ghosts look like, i.e. people under white sheets with chains, might be a [...] D
Alakina Mann and James Bentley were cast after an intensive search that encompassed 5,000 children. D
The Others (2001) was released a few months prior to Vanilla Sky (2001), the American remake of 'Ale [...] D
Alejandro Amenábar wanted to play with shadows, and sometimes scenes were actually lit by candles [...] D
Alejandro Amenábar told Elaine Cassidy (Lydia) that it's in her character to always be one step b [...] D
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's high-profile divorce was finalized the same week that The Others (200 [...] D
Alejandro Amenábar based the look of the movie on drawings from books of the '30s and '40s he rea [...] D
Executive produced by Tom Cruise, this marked the last collaboration between him and Nicole Kidman p [...] D
Alejandro Amenábar originally wanted Emily Watson for the role of Grace. Jodie Foster and Catheri [...] D
The movie opens with Nicole Kidman, in voiceover, reading a story. She begins with the words, "Now c [...] D
Nicole Kidman pressed for the hiring of Eric Sykes as Edmund Tuttle as she and her then-husband Tom [...] D
This was the first film ever to receive the Best Film Award at the Goyas (Spain's national film awar [...] D
The disease the children have is an actual disease known as Xeroderma Pigmentosum which is basically [...] D
Alejandro Amenábar, who wrote and directed the film, also composed and orchestrated the music for [...] D
Nicole Kidman actually quit during rehearsals, as playing Grace gave her nightmares. "At one point I [...] D
This was Renée Asherson's final acting role before her death on October 30, 2014 at the age of 99 [...] D
Alejandro Amenábar: Appears in one of the photographs of dead people - he's the one on the right [...] D
The film opened in the US at number 4 in the box office charts and stayed around that figure for its [...] D
The script was written by Alejandro Amenábar in Spanish and then translated into English. D
Though not an adaptation of Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw," this film borrows from th [...] D
The basis for this movie is from an episode of the British television series, Armchair Theatre (1956 [...] D
Bollywood has a remake called Hum Kaun Hai? (2004). D
Alejandro Amenábar based a lot of the script on his Catholic school education. He's now agnostic. D
The film earned over $200 million, making it one of the highest grossing horror movies of all time. D
Being a Spanish co-production, this film went on after its release on September 7, 2001, to become S [...] D
The Others (2001) comes from a peculiar cross-section of production cultures. It stars an Australian [...] D
When the wandering Charles arrives home escorted by Grace, he meets Mrs. Mills, later revealed to be [...] D
It is mentioned that the photo album is a book of the dead, photos taken of those who passed on so t [...] D
Alejandro Amenábar cast Nicole Kidman in the lead role, having been a fan of hers since Da morire [...] D
To get the kids worked up, Alejandro Amenábar would play scary music when they weren't expecting [...] D