The Others

The Others (2001)

Timing: 1:41 (101 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2001-08-02

Country

France, Spain, United States

Production

Canal+ España, Cruise/Wagner Productions, StudioCanal, Dimension Films, Sogecine, Las Producciones del Escorpion, Canal+ Spain

Genre

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Budget

$17 000 000

Revenue

$210 002 906

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Director

Alejandro Amenábar

Actors

Nicole Kidman, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Eric Sykes, Elaine Cassidy, Keith Allen, Renée Asherson, Michelle Fairley
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Scenario

Alejandro Amenábar

Producer

Fernando Bovaira, José Luis Cuerda, Sunmin Park, Tom Cruise, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Paula Wagner, Rick Schwartz

Operator

Javier Aguirresarobe

Composer

Alejandro Amenábar

Artist

Audition

Jina Jay, Shaheen Baig

Editing

Nacho Ruiz Capillas
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• Alejandro Amenábar was specifically invited by actor and producer Tom Cruise to direct the film.
• The version of the film's beginning shown in American cinemas is slightly longer than the DVD version. According to the filmmakers, the film was slightly trimmed because much of the beginning hinted at the plot of the film's resolution.
• Filming took place from September 30, 2000 to December 5, 2000 in the vicinity of Madrid. Additionally, some filming took place on Long Island in New York and at the Palacio De Los Hornillos estate in the city of Santander in northern Spain, which was used as the exterior of Grace's mansion.
• The Australian musical group Elora Danan wrote a song about the film and named it “Thank God For Their Growth In Faith And Love” – such an inscription is visible on a board in the film’s final scene. The song was included on the debut album “We All Have Secrets”.
• The group Venetian Snares used a sample from the film in the song “Children’s Limbo,” which was included on the album “Find Candace”.
• The disease that children suffer from does indeed exist, although it is very rare – only about a thousand people in the world are affected by it. It is called xeroderma.
• The film became the last joint project of Cruise and Kidman. The week the film was released, their divorce was officially finalized.
• Alejandro Amenábar wrote the screenplay in Spanish and then translated it into English.
• At the time of its release, the film became the highest-grossing film in Spain in the entire history of distribution.
• The film begins with the words of Nicole Kidman, whose voice comes from off-screen: “Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.” These same words opened the British BBC radio program “Listen With Mother,” which aired from 1950 to 1982.
• The ghostly image behind Grace in one of the scenes is actually a portrait of Eduardo Noriega. Specifically, it's a part of the 1855 painting "The Wounded Cavalier" by English artist William Shakespeare Burton.
• The film became the first Spanish production nominated for a Goya Award in which all dialogue is spoken in English.
• Alakina Mann and James Bentley received their roles after a lengthy casting process, which involved over 5,000 children.
• Kidman asked Amenábar and the Weinstein brothers Bob and Harvey to find another actress for the role of Grace, as she found it difficult to start filming such a dark film after working on the vibrant "Moulin Rouge!" (2001).
• In "The Others", director Alejandro Amenábar has a very curious cameo – he can be seen in one of the photographs in the "book of the dead".
• Mateo Gil, screenwriter of Amenábar's previous film, "Open Your Eyes" (1997), also appears in the "corpse" photoshoot.
• Mateo Gil, the screenwriter for Amenábar’s previous film “Open Your Eyes” (1997), also appears in the “corpse” photoshoot.