The Others (2001 film)

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The Others (Template:Langx) is a 2001 psychological horror film written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Alakina Mann and James Bentley. Set in 1945 in Jersey, it focuses on a woman and her two photosensitive children who experience supernatural phenomena in their manor after the arrival of new servants.

The Others was theatrically released in the United States on August 10, 2001, by Dimension Films, and in Spain on September 7, 2001, by Warner Sogefilms. It was a major box-office success, grossing $210 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. Critics praised the atmosphere, performances (particularly Kidman) and its plot twist.

At the 16th Goya Awards, The Others earned a leading fifteen nominations and won in eight categories, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. It was the first English-language film without Spanish dialogue to win Best Film at Spain's Goya Awards. It received six nominations at the 28th Saturn Awards, winning Best Horror Film, Best Actress (for Kidman), and Best Supporting Actress (for Flanagan). It was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Kidman) and Best Original Screenplay at the 55th British Academy Film Awards, and for Best Film at the 14th European Film Awards. Kidman was nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama at the 59th Golden Globe Awards.

Plot

In 1945, Grace Stewart resides in a remote country house in Jersey, a Channel Island formerly occupied by the Germans. As her young children, Anne and Nicholas, suffer from a severe sensitivity to light, Grace keeps the home darkened with heavy curtains. One day, Mrs. Bertha Mills, Edmund Tuttle and the mute Lydia arrive seeking employment. Grace hires them as the housekeeper, gardener, and maid, and learns they worked in the house years prior.

Anne claims to be visited by a young boy named Victor, his parents, and an elderly blind woman. Grace believes this is a fantasy, but after she hears footsteps and voices, she orders the house to be searched for intruders. In a storage room, she finds a nineteenth-century album containing photographs of corpses. Mrs. Mills recounts that many left the house in 1891 due to an outbreak of tuberculosis. Grace begins to fear there are supernatural entities in the house, but struggles to reconcile this with her Catholic faith.

Grace witnesses a piano playing itself and becomes convinced that the house is haunted. She runs outside in search of the local priest to bless the house and instructs Tuttle to check the gardens to see if a family has been buried there. Mrs. Mills instructs Tuttle to conceal gravestones with leaves. In the woods, Grace runs into her husband, Charles, whom she thought was killed in World War II, and brings him back to the house.

One day, Grace checks on Anne playing. To her horror, she finds an old woman wearing Anne's veiled communion dress who speaks in Anne's voice. Grace attacks the woman but finds she has actually attacked Anne. Charles tells Grace he must return to the front, rejecting her insistence that the war is over. He leaves the next morning.

Grace is horrified to find all of the curtains in the house have been removed, exposing Anne and Nicholas to sunlight. She accuses the servants and expels them. That night, the children discover that the headstones in the cemetery belong to the servants, and flee when the servants approach them. Grace finds a postmortem photograph of Mrs. Mills, Tuttle and Lydia, who all perished during the 1891 tuberculosis outbreak. Mrs. Mills tells Grace to talk to the "intruders".

Grace discovers that the elderly blind woman is a medium holding a séance with Victor's parents. They have discovered via automatic writing that Grace, despondent after Charles died in the war, smothered her children with a pillow and shot herself. Aghast, Grace realizes that the intruders are the living family, and that she, her children and the servants are haunting the house.

Embracing her children, Grace admits to her act of murder–suicide: she awoke after her suicide and believed that God had brought everyone back to life for a second chance. Victor and his family move out. Anne and Nicholas realize that sunlight no longer hurts them and enjoy it for the first time. The house goes up for sale and Mrs. Mills informs the Stewarts that they will have to learn to cohabit with future inhabitants. Grace and the children affirm that the house is theirs and that they will not leave.

Cast

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Production

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Palacio de los Hornillos, in Las Fraguas, Arenas de Iguña

Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Filming locations included Madrid and the Palacio de los Hornillos mansion in Las Fraguas, Spain.[1] William Skidelsky of The Observer suggested that it was inspired by the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.[2]

Reception

Box office

The Others was released in the United States and Canada by Dimension Films, opening on August 10, 2001 in 1,678 theaters. It grossed $14 million its opening weekend, ranking fourth at the U.S. box office behind American Pie 2, Rush Hour 2 and The Princess Diaries.[3] It stayed in fourth place for three more weeks, expanding to more theaters. During the weekend of September 21 to 23, it was second at the box office, grossing $5 million in 2,801 theaters.[4] The film, which cost $17 million to produce, grossed $96.5 million in the United States and Canada. It grossed $24 million in Spain, becoming the highest-grossing Spanish film of all time, beating the record set earlier that year by Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella.[5][6] It grossed $113.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $210 million.[7]

Critical response

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Nicole Kidman's performance received acclaim.

Template:Rotten Tomatoes prose Template:Metacritic film prose Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[8]

A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote: "The Others is a flawed if interesting vehicle. The anxious indeterminacy of the first section proves hard to sustain, and as Mr. Amenábar moves away from elegant minimalism, the story begins to become cluttered and confusing, rather than spare and enigmatic." Scott highlighted Kidman's performance, writing that she "embodies this unstable amalgam with a conviction that is in itself terrifying. The icy reserve that sometimes stands in the way of her expressive gifts here becomes the foundation of her most emotionally layered performance to date."[9]

Roger Ebert gave The Others two and a half out of four, writing: "Alejandro Amenábar has the patience to create a languorous, dreamy atmosphere, and Nicole Kidman succeeds in convincing us that she is a normal person in a disturbing situation and not just a standard-issue horror movie hysteric." However, he felt that "in drawing out his effects, Amenábar is a little too confident that style can substitute for substance".[10]

Neil Smith of the BBC awarded The Others four out of five, writing: "Shot in oppressive sepia amid near-darkness (Grace's children having a rare ailment that precludes exposure to sunlight), Amenábar racks up the tension to unbearable levels."[11] Time Out praised it as "confident and controlled... Absence makes the heart beat faster: the absence of light, the corporeal absence of loved ones. Shrewdly cast, Kidman is pitch perfect. It's a clammy, ingenious film, one of the best studio movies of the year."[12]

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times cited Kidman's performance as the greatest strength, writing that she "has thrown herself into her role as if it were Lady Macbeth on the London stage, with formidable results. Though Kidman doesn't hesitate to make Grace high-strung and as tightly wound as they come, she also projects vulnerability and courage when they're called for. It's an intense, involving performance, and it dominates and energizes a film that would be lost without it."[13] In 2025, The Hollywood Reporter named The Others the 14th-greatest horror film of the 21st century.[14]

Accolades

Institution Category Recipient Result Ref.
British Academy Film Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role Nicole Kidman Nominated [15]
Best Original Screenplay Alejandro Amenábar Nominated
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best Actress Nicole Kidman Won [16]
Best Supporting Actress Fionnula Flanagan Nominated
Best Wide-Release Film The Others Nominated
Golden Globe Awards Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Nicole Kidman Nominated [17]
GoldSpirit Awards Best Original Score Alejandro Amenábar Nominated
Goya Awards Best Film The Others Won [18]
Best Director Alejandro Amenábar Won
Best Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated
Best New Actor James Bentley Nominated
Best New Actress Alakina Mann Nominated
Best Cinematography Javier Aguirresarobe Won
Best Editing Nacho Ruiz Capillas Won
Best Art Direction Benjamín Fernández Won
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Best Original Screenplay Alejandro Amenábar Won
Best Original Score Alejandro Amenábar Nominated
Best Sound Template:Ubl Won
Best Costume Design Sonia Grande Nominated
Best Makeup and Hairstyles Template:Ubl Nominated
Best Special Effects Template:Ubl Nominated
Kansas City Film Critic Circle Awards Best Actress Nicole Kidman Won [19]
London Film Critics' Circle Actress of the Year Nicole Kidman Won [20]
Online Film Critics Best Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated [21]
Best Original Screenplay Alejandro Amenábar WonTemplate:Efn
Satellite Awards Best Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated [22]
Best Supporting Actress Fionnula Flanagan Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Alejandro Amenábar Nominated
Best Film The Others Nominated
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Saturn Awards Best Actress Nicole Kidman Won [23]
Best Supporting Actress Fionnula Flanagan Won
Best Performance by a Younger Actor Alakina Mann Nominated [24]
Best Horror Film The Others Won [23]
Best Director Alejandro Amenábar Nominated
Best Writing Alejandro Amenábar Nominated
Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award Alejandro Amenábar Nominated [25]
Young Artist Awards Best Supporting Young Actress Alakina Mann Nominated [26]
Best Young Actor James Bentley Won
Best Family Feature Film – Drama The Others Nominated

Home media

On 14 May 2002, Buena Vista Home Entertainment released a two-disc collector's edition DVD.[27] On 20 September 2011, Lionsgate released the film on Blu-ray.[28] In July 2023, The Criterion Collection announced a forthcoming 4K UHD Blu-ray edition of the film scheduled for release on 24 October 2023.[29] StudioCanal concurrently announced distribution for a 4K UHD Blu-ray in Europe.[30]

Planned remake

In April 2020, Sentient Entertainment acquired the remake rights to The Others, with the company planning to revamp the film by setting it in the present day.[31] Later that year, it was announced that Universal Pictures will co-produce and distribute the film with Sentient.[32]

See also

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