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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	The Others  Release Date - August 10, 2001  Distributor - Miramax Films  Duration - 103 Mins  Type - Suspense/Horror and Thriller. ( Rated PG-13 )  Writer : Alejandro Amenabar.  Producer : Jose Luis Cuerda, Fernando Bovaira and Sunmin Park.  Director : Alejandro Amenabar.  Starring : Nicole Kidman, Elaine Cassidy, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan and Eric Sykes.  Synopsis Set on the Isle of Jersey during World War II, this thriller tells the story of Grace (Nicole Kidman) who moves with her two sick children into a mansion on an isolated island while her husband is off at war. Unable to withstand sunlight, Grace's sons must live in total darkness. In their isolation, they discover they are not alone: there is a ghostly presence in their house.  Critic Reviews In "The Others," starring Nicole Kidman, we do the imagining, based on sounds that occur beyond the camera's eye, or by the looks on people's faces as they experience the supernatural. By not resorting to effects (regardless of whether the choice was artistic or budgetary), writer-director Alejandro Amenabar has been forced to scare us the old-fashioned way: with sleight of hand rather than his pocketbook. And he doesn't hyperbolize things, either. "The Others" stays small, focused and specific. Kidman plays Grace, who has just moved into a small mansion on the island of Jersey, near the coast of France during World War II. She's waiting for the return of her husband (Christopher Eccleston) from the front. But she's also using this house as protection for her preteen children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley). They suffer from a condition that renders them fatally vulnerable to light. So the house, with its dark hallways and heavy curtains, is the perfect habitat. Grace asks her three new servants (Fionnula Flanagan, Eric Sykes and Elaine Cassidy) to refrain from using lights and to cover every window. Strange things begin to happen, of course: unexplained noises around the house. When Anne claims to have seen apparitions, the religious Grace punishes her for making up stories. But when the disturbances become too obvious to ignore, she's forced to take desperate measures. Tensions increase between Grace and the servants, especially when someone seems to have purposely opened the windows. But the prim and proper Mrs. Mills (Flanagan) is adamant that the domestic staff is not to blame. The noises get louder. There are many surprises in store. And this narrative-twisty story is helped by strong performances, a vital requirement for a movie that depends on nuance. Kidman is persuasively stoic as she resists a supernatural world she doesn't want to acknowledge. Flanagan has a powerful presence, too, that threatens to upstage Kidman at every turn. And as the children, Mann and Bentley's bickerings have the believable earmarks of a genuine sibling relationship. But it's the atmospheric sideshow that earns the highest marks. With cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe and production designer Benjamin Fernandez, the Chilean-born director creates a memorable world of moody half-darkness, its characters standing out in luminous, eerie definition   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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