Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Spain, United States, France
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
- nightmare
- suicide attempt
- shotgun
- servant
- cemetery
- world war ii
- nanny
- haunted house
- channel islands
- female protagonist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Nicole Kidman
Grace Stewart
Alakina Mann
Anne Stewart
James Bentley
Nicholas Stewart
Fionnula Flanagan
Mrs. Bertha Mills
- Christopher Eccleston — Charles Stewart
- Eric Sykes — Mr. Edmund Tuttle
- Elaine Cassidy — Lydia
- Keith Allen — Mr. Marlish
- Renée Asherson — Old Lady
- Michelle Fairley — Mrs. Marlish
- Gordon Reid — Assistant
- Alexander Vince — Victor Marlish
- Ricardo López — Second Assistant
- Aldo Grilo — Gardener
- Directed
- Alejandro Amenábar
- Written
- Alejandro Amenábar
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 7,342 ratings
- Studio
- Cruise/Wagner Productions, Sogecine, Las Producciones del Escorpión
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
