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The Other
Why this pick
Like Our Mother's House, it filters grave childhood distress through an enclosed domestic world, balancing innocence, ritual, and a steadily deepening sense that adult safeguards have failed.
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MOVIE1967 1h 40m GBR
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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The Night of the Hunter
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The seven Hook children, whose ages range from five to fourteen, live in a dilapidated Victorian house in suburban London. The older children help to care for their invalid single mother, whose chronic illness has led to her to convert to fundamentalist religion and refuse all medical help. When their mother dies suddenly, the children realise that they may be split up and sent to orphanages, so they decide to conceal their mother's death and carry on with their daily routine as if she were still alive. They secretly bury their mother in the back yard at night, and convert the garden shed into a shrine to her, where they periodically hold seances to communicate with her spirit.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mark Lester
Jiminee
Edina Ronay
Doreen
Pamela Franklin
Diana
Phoebe Nicholls
Gertie
Yootha Joyce
Mrs. Quayle
Anthony Nicholls
Mr. Halbert
Annette Carell
Mother