The Others: Plot Summary

A mother, Grace, lives in an old decrepit mansion with her two children, Anne and Nicholas, awaiting for her husband to return from the Second World War. The families servants "vanished" without any word so Grace hires three new ones to look after the children and the house. The children have a health condition, Photosensitivity, which is a disease that makes them allergic to light. In order to protect the children, Grace has specific rules including keeping all doors locked at all times and keeping the windows covered and having no light stronger than candle light in a room. It becomes evident that the family is not alone in the house. Anne sees the other people in the house. Grace is skeptical and believes Anne is making things up, until she starts to notice another presence in the house as well. When all the curtains are missing one day Grace snaps, and has the servants leave, in a desperate search through the house Grace finds a funeral photograph of the three servants. The children are found by the others and Grace has to "go talk to them", where we find out that Grace and the children are dead also. The intruders happen to be family that was moving into the house. Grace had killed her children and herself and are stuck in a kind of limbo.

The Others Director: Alejandro Amenabar Biography

Alejandro Amenabar was born on March 31, 1972 in Santiago de Chile, Chile. He grew up mainly in Madrid where he studied cinema at the Sciences Information Faculty at Madrid's Complutense University, he was not the best student and later dropped out to start making his own cinemas. In his best known early film Himenóptero from 1992, he directed, produced, acted, and wrote the script and the music for. Amenbar's first commercial success was, Thesis, this film was his career breakthrough and displayed that he was a major director. His later movies Abre Los Ojos and The Others confirmed his place in cinematography. In all his films he writes the script and the music as well as composing for other films. He was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.