The Others (2002, DVD)

Finally, a ghost story of substance!

Grace (Kidman), the mother of two severely photophobic children, Anne and Nicolas, lives in an eerie isolated mansion just after WWII ends. It's quite a burden on a young and attractive mother to keep the sunlight out of every room her children pass through or stay in, let alone keep up a huge estate that she holds out hope for her war veteran husband to return to and keep with her.

After placing an ad in the newspaper for servants, three such servants arrive on the doorstep. When Grace answers the door, she believes they have come to answer the ad and to work for her. Instead, the trio are the former tenants of the mansion with alterior motives.

When Grace's little girl, Anne, keeps talking to what her extra-Catholic home-schooling mother believes is a child's fantasy playmate, Nicolas (who is the younger child) is scared beyond compare. Both children claim that there is another little boy living in the house. They can hardly be disbelieved by their spiritual mother because of the strange sounds in the house indicating something or someone is hiding and dwelling inside of their home.

The interesting point is that the nanny has no difficulty at all believing the children, and the three keep that secret from Grace. As in the classics "Gaslight, with Ingrid Bergman, and "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte," with Bette Davis, Nicole Kidman finds herself in a very similar sort of situation where inanimate objects become animated, voices haunt her, and she begins growing more and more skeptical of reality.

The film is a tension building, haunted house, ghost thriller. Though it is rated PG, I found it more suitable for an adult because this one could give smaller children nightmares. Kidman gives a first rate dramatic performance based upon nothing but her remarkable acting ability, and not her good looks! She is comparable to Bergman and Davis as an actor, that's why I previously mentioned both of them.

The movie was good. Suspenseful. but didnt hold my interest in the beginning. I had to stick with it, and it hen began to get interesting. This was definitely not a horror or scary movie. But I liked the little girls part. She was a sraight trip.

This movie keeps you thinking and keeps you on your toes. I love it. The way the photography is shot to create the mysteries to this movie. A surprise ending also puts you through the loop. I literally watch it over and over again. I love it!

I bought this movie because I had it on VHS & decided to upgrade to DVD. The dvd arrived in excellent condition - perfect. I love this movie! If you like Nicole Kidman, the supernatural, and twist endings, you will love this movie too! If you question the after life at all, this movie provides lots of food for thought. You won't be disappointed.

I saw this movie when it first came out. The trailer for the movie seemed that it would be a good scary movie. The first time I saw it I thought it could have been scarier but still liked it. I haven't seen it since. Then I decided to purchase it from e-bay, the price was right. I totally enjoyed it more this time. The performances by the actors were really good. The ending twist was good...I don't want to give it away if you haven't seen it yet.

This movie was excellent!!!!!!!!!!!! the shipping was also very fast and I recieved it just in time for christmas!! thank you very much!!

paid for my DVD and did not recived a thing. I have written twice and still nothing. I will not buy anything through ebay again. and thanks for nothing.

Very good movie. If you like Ghost stories and movies you'll like this movie.
It has suspense and it's great for the whole family to watch together.

This movie is yet another movie that has a GREAT twist on the ending. You think you know what will happen BUT it doesn't happen that way. You are completely taken by what happens! This movie is a bit slow so the younger kids might not like it, although it doesn't have any bad language or anything I could see that would make it unfit for a child. Pretty good clean movie. I overall liked this movie, like I said not an action thriller or anything, but really good at the ending. WOrth spending your money on and I would hihgly recommend it.

I waited longer than usual but I recieved the DVD in very good condition. I would still buy from this seller eventhough I waited a little bit

not a nicole kidman fan at all but i loved this movie! I kneew from the start the outcome but the film was totally worth wathcing till the end. I have the collectors series.

Kind of a slow beginning, but it gets better. Neat twist towards the end. It is hard to hear though, no matter how loud you turn the volume up on your TV.

I have not recieved the item yet and the person will not contact me back in regards to why I have not gotten it

Other than being fairly predictable, The Others was just another movie trying to impress upon viewers that it is different. This was definately one of Nicole Kidman's worst acting movies. I have always thought she is underrated as an actress, but she did well in playing down to the script in this one. This one might have made for a nice movie short of about 30 minutes or so, but strung out over 2 hours made for a very boring evening. If you need an average movie that you don't want to have to think on this might suit you, otherwise don't waste your time.

I loved the movie and it had me thinking through the whole
movie are they dead? It was kind of scary a little but mostly had me wondering until the end of the movie who the one that's really dead?
Nicole is one of my favorite actress and this is her best movie yet!
I think everybody should see it because it a very wonderful movie.
And if you like movies with ghost in it you'll definitly love this movie!

I decide to buy because I like this movie and here I found it in excellent condition and price. And I have a good communication with the seller.

Excellent tale of a paronoid woman with her two kids living in a mansion not knowing she and the kids are dead. Great chilling, thriller. Highly recommended.