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• At one point a very scared Nicholas asks Anne to say something, anything, and she says, "My name is Anne and I'm walking. I'm walking and my name is Anne." This is a reference to director Alejandro Amenábar's first movie Tesis (1996) in which Angela asks the same thing of Chema, getting a similar answer.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Being a Spanish co-production, this film went on after its release on September 7, 2001, to become Spain's biggest grossing domestic film of all time after less than two months of release.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Alejandro Amenábar] Appears in one of the photographs of dead people - he's the one on the right with a moustache, of the group of three men.
  
  
• Mateo Gil, screenwriter of Alejandro Amenábar's previous film Abre los ojos (1997), has a cameo as a dead man's photograph in the album.
  
  
• 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 face of the painting is that of Eduardo Noriega.
  
  
• 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.)
  
  
• This was the first film ever to receive the Best Film Award at the Goyas (Spain's national film awards) with not a single word of Spanish spoken in it.
  
  
• The house - supposedly on the island of Jersey - is actually located in the north of Spain (Santander).
  
  
• This is the highest grossing Spanish film ($209,700,000) in the all-time worldwide boxoffice history. As of May 2006 it was 265th.
  
  
• Executive produced by Tom Cruise, this marked the last collaboration between him and Nicole Kidman prior to their divorce.
  
  
• The script was written by Alejandro Amenabar in Spanish and then translated into English.
  
  
• The film opened in the US at number 4 in the box office charts and stayed around that figure for its initial run. Seven weeks into release it actually climbed up to the number 2 spot.
  
  
• Nicole Kidman originally tried to persuade Alejandro Amenabar and the Weinstein brothers to find another actress for the part. Coming off the bright and exuberant "Moulin Rouge!" (2001), the actress was initially reluctant to do a film that explored such dark places.
  
  
• Alakina Mann and James Bentley were cast after an intensive search that encompassed 5,000 children.
  
  
• Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's high profile divorce was finalized the same week that "The Others" was released.
  
  
• The basis for this movie in an episode of the British series "Armchair Theatre" called "The Others" made in 1970 and remade as a movie called "Voices" in 1972. This version is more elaborate but the story is the same.
  
  

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