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Los Otros (Original title)The Others (Alternative title)
Date: 2001 (Copyright)

Countries: Spain, USA

Director: Alejandro Amenábar

Synopsis: Thriller set on Jersey Island in 1945: three domestics looking for work turn up at the door of widow Grace looking for work. Grace has two children, Anne and Nicholas, and gladly takes the three on. There is a gardener, Mr Tuttle, a cook, Lydia, and Mrs Mills, a housekeeper. Grace keeps her children on a tight leash: claiming they have an allergy to sunlight the children are all but confined indoors and Grace is extremely strict with the older of the two children, her daughter Anne. However there are strange occurrences and the children claim the house is haunted.

Genres:
Fantasy, Horror

Subjects:
Jersey, Fantasy, Housekeepers
Releases
Date: 2001Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DTS (sound) / SDDSRuntime: 104 mins Length: 9368 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2001Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DTS (sound) / SDDSAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 104 mins Length: 9368 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2001Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DTS (sound) / SDDSAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 104 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 2001Country: SpainRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DTS (sound) / SDDSAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 104 mins Dialogue (original): English / Dialogue (dubbed): Spanish

Credits (193)
©: Las Producciones del Escorpión S.L., ©: Sogecine, Production Company: Cruise/Wagner Productions, ©/Production Company: Sogecine, Production Company: Las Producciones del Escorpión, Production Company: Le Studio Canal+, Presents: Dimension Films, Executive Producer: Tom Cruise, Executive Producer: Paula Wagner, Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein, Executive Producer: Harvey Weinstein, Executive Producer: Rick Schwartz, Produced by: Fernando Bovaira, Produced by: José Luis Cuerda, Produced by: Sunmin Park, Line Producer: Emiliano Otegui, Line Producer: Miguel Ángel González, Associate Producer: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson, Sogecine Production: Sophie De Mac Mahon, Verónica Roldán, Unit Manager: José Antonio García Tapia, Production Co-ordinator: Trilby Norton, Financial Director: Pablo Alfaro, Controller: Eva Muslera, Production Accountant: Brian Gibbs, Assistant Accountant: Juan Luis Pedrero, Sogecine Post-production: Eladio Fernández, Manuela Díaz, Post-production Assistant: Maite Bermúdez, David López-Puigcerver, Production Consultant: Jonathan Sanger, Production and Post-production Assistant: Marian Fernández, Assistant to Mr Bovaira: Sol López, Production Runner: Daniel M. Villalba, Production Trainee: Pablo Zorrilla, Claire Amondaray, 1st Assistant Director: Javier Chinchilla, 2nd Assistant Director: Guillermo Escribano, 2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Luis Casacuberta, 3rd Assistant Director: Carlos Santana, Script Supervisor: Carmen Soriano, Casting: Jina Jay, Casting: Shaheen Baig, Casting (Agency): Jina Jay Casting, Casting (Santander Stand-ins): Inmaculada Iglesias, Written by: Alejandro Amenábar, Director of Photography: Javier Aguirresarobe, Camera Operator: Julio Madurga, Steadicam: Arturo Aldegunde, Focus Puller: Ramiro Sabell, 2nd Unit Focus Puller: Salvador Gómez, Clapper Loader: Gustavo de la Fuente, 2nd Unit Clapper Loader: Juan De Andres, Gaffer: Rafael Martos, Gaffer: Enrique Bello, Electrician: Eugenio Martínez, Electrician: Carlos García, Electrician: Ángel Granell, Electrician: José Luis Molero, Electrician: Alberto Sánchez, Key Grip: José Luis González, Grip: Antonio Fdez Santamaría, Grip: José Luis González Jr, Video Link: Miguel Balanzategui, Still Photographer and Post Mortem New Photography: Teresa Isasi, Post Mortem Original Photographs: Stanley B. Burns, The Burns Archive, Special Promotional Photography: Manuel Outomuro, Visual Effects Supervisor: Félix Bergés, Digital Visual Effects: Daiquiri, Telson, Compositing Supervisor: Rafa Solórzano, Digital Compositors: Eduardo Díaz, Digital Compositors: Ana Cortés, Digital Compositors: Carlos Trijueque, Digital Compositors: Guillermo Orbe, Digital Compositors: Rosa Angel, Digital Compositors: David L. Guaita, Gonzalo Moure, 3D Computer Animation: Magoga Piñas, 3D Computer Animation: Carmen Diaz, 3D Computer Animation: Antonio Lado, Daniel Fernández, Digital Matte Painting: Gregorio Molina, Iván López, SFX Digital Production: Niké Alonso, Susana Suárez, Scanning & Recording in London: Cinesite, Head of Scanning & Recording: Stuart Pearson, Scanning & Recording Supervisor: Simon Hughes, Scanning & Recording Editorial: Jon Benn, Scanning & Recording in Spain: Telson Internacional S.A., Head of Scanning & Recording [Spain]: Juanjo Carretero, Special Effects Supervisor: Derek Langley, SFX Atmospherics & Mechanical: The Weathermen, F&P, Special Effects Supervisor: Derek Langley, Special Effects Assistant: Bernard Newton, Special Effects Assistant: Graham Aickman, Pedro Moreno, Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas, Assistant Editor: Ma José Almela, 2nd Assistant Editor: Isabel Ranz, 2nd Assistant Editor: Javier Navasques, 2nd Assistant Editor: Ángel Iglesias, 2nd Assistant Editor: Alfonso Berrocal, Production Design: Benjamín Fernández, Set Decorator: Emilio Ardura, Set Decorator: Elli Griff, Draftsman: Alejandro Fernández, Scenic Artist: Julián Martín, Storyboard Artist: Sergio Rozas, Storyboard Artist: Natalia Montes, Prop Buyer: Enrique Vazquez, Standby Props: Juan Ignacio Viñuales, Standby Props: Gonzalo Anso, Standby Props: Carlos Gil, Standby Props: Clemente Rivas, Standby Props: Blas Antonio Padilla, Art Trainee: Catalina Madurga, Construction Manager: Ramón Moya, Construction Buyer: Pedro de La Fuente, Standby Painter: Salvador Comes, Master Painter: José García Donado, Master Plasterer: Ángel Balaguer, Standby Carpenter: Jose Luis Navarro, Master Carpenter: Antonio Sánchez, Costume Designer: Sonia Grande, Wardrobe Assistant: Paco Delgado, Ana Cuerda, Seamstress: Claudia Adriazola, Eva Salas, Ms [Nicole] Kidman's Make-up Design and Concept: Robert McCann, Make-up: Ana López-Puigcerver, Make-up Assistant: Mara Collazo, Montserrat Boqueras, Ms Kidman's Hair Design/Concept: Kerry Warn, Ms [Nicole] Kidman's Wigs Design and Concept: Peter Owen, Hairdressing: Belén López-Puigcerver, Teresa Rabal, Main Titles Sequence Designed/Producd by: yU+co., Main Title Illustrations: Steve Ellis, Final Credit/Optical Effects: Story Film/Pablo Núñez, Final Credit/Optical Effects: Ana Núñez, Final Credit/Optical Effects: Carlos Martínez, Antonio Ojeda, Music: Alejandro Amenábar, Conductor: Claudio Ianni, Concert Master: Gavyn Wright, Concert Master: Lucio Godoy, Alejandro Amenábar, Orchestrations: Xavier Capellas, Orchestrations: Claudio Ianni, Orchestrations: Lucio Godoy, Orchestrations: Alejandro Amenábar, Music Producer: Lucio Godoy, Music Executive (Dimension Films): Randy Spendlove, [Music Recording] Engineer: Geoff Foster, Sound Designer: Isabel Díaz Cassou, Sound: Ricardo Steinberg, Boom Operator: Sergio Burmann, Boom Operator: Carlos Culebras, Cableman: Carlos Lidón, Re-recording Mixer: Tim Cavagin, Steve Single, Supervising Sound Editors: Goldstein & Steinberg, Sound Editor: Maite Rivera, Assistant Sound Editor: Alejandro Fernández Capilla, Assistant Sound Editor: María Steinberg, ADR Recordist: John Bateman, ADR Recordist: Sito Raposo, ADR Recordist: Robert Thompson, Foley Artist: Julien Naudin, Foley Recordist: Guillaume Delamare, Stunt Co-ordinator: Miguel Pedregosa, Assistant Stunt Co-ordinator: Juan Benito Cuevas, Stunts: Sonia Gonzalo, Stunts: Esther Ramos, Ms Kidman's Double: Svetlana Albitskaia, Tutor/Chaperone: Elizabeth Every, Children's Drama Coach: Julie Austin, Didi Hopkins, Chaperone: Gaynor Victoria Mann, Susan Ball, Historical Consultant: Juan Pando, Dolby Consultant: James Seddon, DTS Consultant: Rod Duggan, SDDS Consultant: Les Brock, Unit Doctor: Paula Farias, Nuria Rodríguez, Dialogue Coach: Sandra Frieze, Translator: Walter Leonard
Cast (15)
Nicole Kidman (Grace), Fionnula Flanagan (Mrs Bertha Mills), Christopher Eccleston (Charles), Alakina Mann (Anne), James Bentley (Nicholas), Eric Sykes (Mr Edmund Tuttle), Elaine Cassidy (Lydia), Keith Allen (Mr Marlish), Renée Asherson (old lady), Michelle Fairley (Mrs Marlish), Gordon Reid (assistant), Alexander Vince (Victor Marlish), Ricardo López (2nd assistant), Aldo Grilo (gardener), Alejandro Amenábar (man in photo album)