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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Miramax Films
Release Date: Aug 10, 2001
Running Time: 101 mins. (V)
Additional Notes: dialogue English
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Spain
Country Of Origin: France
synopsis
On the secluded Isle of Jersey in the final days of World War II, a young woman waits in vain for her beloved husband to return from the front. Grace has been raising her two young children alone in her beautiful, cavernous Victorian mansion, the one place she believes them to be safe. But they are not safe. Not anymore. When a new trio of servants arrives to replace the crew that inexplicably disappeared, startling events begin to unfold. Grace's daughter reveals she has been communicating with unexplained apparitions that come and go in every room of the house. At first, Grace refuses to believe in her children's scary sightings, but soon, she too begins to sense that intruders are at large. Who are these numinous trespassers? And what do they want from Grace's family? In order to discover the truth, Grace must abandon all of her fears and beliefs and enter the otherworldly heart of the supernatural.
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Grace
Mrs Mills
Charles
Anne
Nicholas
Mr Tuttle
Lydia
Old Lady
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Mr Marlish
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reviews
The story opens with Grace reading a lesson by candlelight to her children and the film never gets much brighter than that. Because the mansion has no electricity and the curtains are always drawn, the lighting is always somber and dusky, adding to the film's cold and gloomy feel. The outdoor scenes are bathed in a thick, icy fog that can be seen in the rooms where light is allowed to seep in. The costumes and hairstyles combined with the lighting and settings give this film a 1950s feel.… 
August 6, 2001
It has spooky atmosphere, a wicked twist of an ending and an ice-cold grabber of a performance by Nicole Kidman as Grace, a mother who isolates her two children in a Victorian mansion on the British isle of Jersey near the end of World War II. Grace, who fears her husband (Christopher Eccleston) has died in battle, keeps her two kids - Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley) - in the dark. Literally. She tells the new housekeeper (the expert Fionnula Flanagan) that daylight will cause…
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