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This spooky period chiller has taken its place among critics' favorite haunted-house films! Everyone remembers the famous "I am your daughter!" scene, but how much else do you recall? Find out now!
Where is The Others set?
Cornwall
the Jersey Islands
Jersey is located off the coast of Normandy (northern France); its relationship to Britain is complex. But English is the main language there, and they use pounds sterling for currency.
Yorkshire
Scotland
What is the name of Nicole Kidman's character?
Emma
Grace
Grace is a tightly-wound mother of two whose husband is absent. Yet, through all her problems, she maintains an exquisitely-controlled 1940s hairstyle of rolled-and-pinned curls.
Margaret
Zelda
What is Grace's nightmare, in the opening scene, about?
ghosts
a fire
the war
we never learn this
Grace wakes up screaming in the opening scene. By the end of the movie, we can guess what featured prominently in her nightmare.
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What are the names of Grace's children?
Anne and John
Anne and Nicholas
Anne is keenly intelligent and not easily frightened. For this reason, she drives a lot of the action in the film, refusing to back down from her story of "intruders" in the house.
Diana and Nicholas
Emily and Charles, Jr.
What religion do Grace and her children follow?
Anglicanism
Catholicism
Grace is Catholic and tries hard to raise her children as true believers in the faith. They, however, are already starting to question Biblical teachings.
Judaism
Wicca
What are the names of the servants who arrive at the front door?
Mrs. Brown, Mr. Gray, and Anna
Mrs. Smith, Mr. Tuttle, and Charlotte
Mrs. Mills, Mr. Tuttle, and Lydia
Bertha Mills is the children's new nanny, Mr. Tuttle is the gardener, and Lydia cleans house.
Mrs. Mills, Mr. Jones, and Emily
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What is unusual about the three servants arriving at the front door?
the doorbell doesn't work
the gate was chained and couldn't be opened
Grace did not advertise for servants
Grace's advertisement for servants never reached the newspaper
Grace has already begun introducing the servants to the house and its routines when she finds her advertisement still in the mailbox. She asks Mrs. Mills for an explanation, and Mills says they were simply looking for work and took their chances.
Where is Grace's husband and the children's father?
London, making a living
in a tuberculosis sanitorium
he's believed to have been killed in the war
Tuberculosis does play a role in the plot, but not here. Grace's husband went to the front, in France, and hasn't been heard from again.
Grace's husband and the children's father are not the same man
The children have a condition that renders them intolerant to what?
milk
sugar
light
The children are photosensitive. Grace explains that exposure to light will make their skin break out in blisters, then cause difficulty breathing and, eventually, even death.
heat
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What is Grace's one cardinal rule for the servants?
leave discipline of the children to her
close one door before opening the next
This keeps the children from accidentally entering a room with light in it. Grace explains that the house is "like a ship." That is, light must be kept out of its interior rooms the way water is kept out of a ship's interior compartments.
never talk back
have fun
How many keys does the house require?
five keys for 10 doors
10 keys for 10 doors
15 keys for 25 doors
15 keys for 50 doors
This makes Grace's number-one rule, about closing and locking all doors, fairly tedious to carry out. She entrusts only Mrs. Mills with the spare set of keys.
Grace's "four hells" are the regular hell, purgatory, children's limbo, and what else?
the bosom of Abraham
The regular hell is where the "damned go," Nicholas explains, and the bosom of Abraham is for "the just." It's a reference to a place where the righteous dead go to await Judgment Day.
the dark realm
Sheol
the inferno
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What medical condition does Grace complain of?
fibromyalgia
hypoglycemia
migraines
In an early scene, Grace tells Mrs. Mills not to let the children "thump away" on the piano. It brings on the headaches, she says.
double vision
Which is NOT one of the things Anne doubts about the Bible?
that the Holy Ghost is a dove
that Jesus turned water into wine
Anne and Nicholas's youthful skepticism is a theme that runs through the movie; they challenge their mother's Bible teachings more than once. However, Mrs. Mills is unconcerned about Anne's beliefs.
that God created the world in seven days
that Noah fit all the animals on one boat
What is the name of the little boy Anne sees around the house?
Charles
Matthew
Mark
Victor
Anne is adamant that Victor is real. Grace, though, thinks she has a wild imagination, and tells Mrs. Mills she disapproves of her daughter's "fantasies."
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Whom does Grace think is making noise upstairs and shaking the ceiling?
Anne
Lydia
Grace tells Mrs. Mills to talk to Lydia about moving around more quietly. But when Grace sees the chandelier shaking, she gets quite a turn -- because both Mrs. Mills and Lydia are outside, visible through the window.
Nicholas
Mrs. Mills
Of the four "intruders," which one does Anne see most often?
the man
the woman
the old woman
Anne draws all the figures for her mother and labels each figure with the number of times she's seen them. The old woman rates a 14, whereas Victor, the second-most-frequent, is only a 5.
Victor
What kind of pictures are in the book that Grace finds?
newspaper photos about the war
photographs of small children
photos of the recently dead
The kinds of photos Grace is looking at are commonly called mourning portraits. A death in the family wasn't just an occasion to take a last picture of the deceased; family portraits were taken, too, as everyone was assembled.
regular family photos from the Victorian era
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What is Tuttle keeping covered, in the yard?
an unused swimming pool
a dead animal
gravestones
Grace was told the property had a graveyard, but not where it was. The fact that Tuttle keeps it hidden is one of several things that makes the servants look sinister.
empty, open graves
Who does Grace go out in the fog seeking?
a doctor
the mailman
a priest
Grace says that the rooms of the house need to be blessed. She's been convinced that there are "intruders" in the house.
Mr. Tuttle
Who does Grace encounter in the fog?
a black dog
a white horse
the mailman
her husband
Charles appears in the woods. When Grace asks him where he's been all this time, he says he's been "out in the world" trying to find his way home.
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What is Anne wearing during the "I am your daughter" scene?
overalls
a pink nightdress
a First Communion dress and veil
Anne has begged to be able to wear her dress and veil a little while longer, after trying them on. Her mother relents, only to come back and see -- or think she sees -- the blind old lady staring through the thin veil.
a school uniform
When Charles leaves again, where does he say he is going?
back to the front
Grace is confused, saying the war is over. But Charles insists the war is not over -- he's just come back to visit his wife and children, but cannot stay.
to visit family
"home"
he doesn't say
What causes both children to begin screaming one morning, late in the film?
they've realized their father is dead
they've realized the servants are ghosts
the curtains are all down, letting in light
Grace runs back to the house to help her children. However, when she confronts the servants about taking down the curtains, they're unconcerned and insolent.
they've seen the old woman again
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When Anne climbs out the bedroom window, where does she say she is going?
to play
to find her father
Anne goes out to find Charles. Nicholas follows, mostly because he's afraid of being alone.
to find the truth
to run away to the mainland
Whose name is on the tombstone Anne uncovers?
her father's
her brother's
her own
Bertha Mills's
Mills, Tuttle and Lydia all died in a tuberculosis breakout. Tuttle has been keeping their graves covered in order not to scare the house's newer "residents."
How does Grace learn the servants are dead?
she too sees the gravestone
she finds the death certificates in a study
she finds a mourning portrait of them
All three are in the same photo. In fact, in several of the portraits, children or younger adults are photographed in twos or threes. It's a reminder of the fragility of life back then, when communicable diseases swept through towns and families.
Lydia breaks her silence and tells Grace
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When Grace goes upstairs to talk to the intruders, what are they doing?
eating
sleeping
having a seance
It's at this point the audience fully realizes that they're seeing a ghost story from the other side. When Grace pounds the table in anger, the table jumps -- inexplicably, from the living persons' point of view.
having a party
How did Grace kill her children?
drowned them in the bathtub
poisoned their dessert
shot them with a rifle
smothered them with pillows
Grace killed her children, then shot herself with the rifle. When she "woke" to hear the children apparently still alive, she says, she thought God was giving her a second chance.
When Nicholas asks if they're in limbo, what does Grace say?
"yes, forever"
that the house is their heaven
that she doesn't know anymore if there's a limbo
Anne and Nicholas, from the beginning, question what their mother is teaching them about the Bible. By the end, Grace is questioning what she's been taught, too.
she doesn't say anything
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Who directed The Others?
Alejandro Aja
Alejandro Amenabar
Alejandro Amenabar directed The Others. Fun fact: During the production of The Others, Nicole Kidman was soon to be divorced from Tom Cruise. A short time later, Cruise would star in Vanilla Sky -- a remake of an Amenabar film, Abre Los Ojos.
Guillermo del Toro
James Wan
What year was The Others released?
2001
1990s horror -- or "millennial" horror -- was dominated by teen run-and-screams, especially Wes Craven's Scream and Final Destination. The rich period details of The Others was a refreshing change of pace.
2002
2003
2004
Who played the daughter, Anne?
Alakina Mann
Mann also had a role in Girl with the Pearl Earring, but she's generally kept a low profile. Her role in The Others was hard to cast -- the filmmakers wanted a child actor with enough backbone to work across from Nicole Kidman's Grace.
Anna Chlumsky
Sasha Pieterse
Janelle Parrish
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What horror subgenre is The Others usually classed in?
Gothic
Gothic horror often deals with haunted houses and/or troubled families, usually in the countryside. A rare example of urban Gothic horror is Rosemary's Baby.
erotic
religious
torture porn
Which short story is considered an inspiration for The Others?
The Castle of Otranto
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
Rebecca
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw was a ghost story about a governess and the two children she oversees. It was written by Portrait of a Lady author Henry James.
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