The Others is a 2001 psychological horror film by the Spanish-Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman. It is inspired partly by the novella The Turn of the Screw. It won eight Goya Awards, including awards for Best Film and Best Director. This was the first English-language film ever to receive the Best Film Award at the Goyas , without a single word of Spanish spoken in it. The Others won Best Horror Film at the Saturn Awards, and Kidman received a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination. Grace Stewart is a Catholic mother who lives with her two small children in a remote... country house in the British Crown Dependency of Jersey, in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The children, Anne and Nicholas , have an uncommon disease, xeroderma pigmentosa, characterized by photosensitivity, so their lives are structured around a series of complex rules designed to protect them from inadvertent exposure to sunlight. The new arrival of three servants at the house — an aging nanny and servant named Mrs. Bertha Mills , an elderly gardener named Mr.
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| Release date: | August 2, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fernando Bovaira, José Luis Cuerda, Sunmin Park |
| Editor: | Nacho Ruiz Capillas |
| Music by: | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Cinematography: | Javier Aguirresarobe |
| Screenplay by: | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Estimated budget: | $17,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |