A woman named Grace (Nicole Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Alakina Mann and James Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Anne and Nicholas have a deadly allergy to light, so the family lives in almost total darkness in the mansion. Grace's husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, hilarity ensues and strange, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle when Anne starts to talk with The Others.
Trivia: The disease the children have is an actual disease known as xeroderma pigmentosum. It is very rare with roughly a thousand people in the world that have it. The ghostly image appearing over Grace's shoulder resolves itself into a somber face in a painting on the wall. This image is actually a detail (specifically, a close-up of the Puritan man's face) of the 1855 Pre-Raphaelite painting "The Wounded Cavalier" by William Shakespeare Burton. The movie opens with Nicole Kidman, in voiceover, reading a story. She begins with the words, "...are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin." These were the opening words from the BBC radio programme "Listen With Mother", broadcast in the UK between 1950 and 1982. (She actually says, "Now, children, are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin," a common mis-quotation of the Listen With Mother opening.)
With these three words "Starring Nicole Kidman" we just lost Kim, she has an aversion to the former Mrs. Cruise. This is one of two films that I owe Impman for guessing my Alphabet Project movies. I have actually seen this one before but it was in the theater so it has been awhile. This was one of the many movies that came after the Sixth Sense that had a "M. Night Shyamalan style twist" ending (which I am not going to reveal). So I went in knowing the twist and I watched to see if they gave it away and they did a very good job of not revealing anything to early and they kept the suspense going pretty well.
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Thanks Will, appreciate the review. Shame about Kim because I think she would enjoy this film. Forget Nicole, the child actors in the film are very very good, and it is the whole essense of the film, the whole "feeling" that you get when watching it, that makes it.
Go on Kim do yourself a favour and watch, what is a bloomin good film, despite having Nicole in it!
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