Director: Alejandro AmenábarWriter: Alejandro Amenábar

Release Date: 2nd November 2001Budget: $17,000,000 (estimated)

Runtime: 101 min  

Nicole Kidman as Grace StewartAlakina Mann as Anne Stewart, Grace's

daughterJames Bentley as Nicholas Stewart, Grace's

son and Anne's younger brotherFionnula Flanagan as Bertha Mills, the new

housekeeperEric Sykes as Edmund Tuttle, the new

gardenerElaine Cassidy as Lydia, the new maid

Christopher Eccleston as Charles Stewart, Grace's husband, who went into the war years

earlier

A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for

her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt

in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for

them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.