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Plot summary
Elaine and Jonah travel with Casey, Miranda and Paulie to the remote country home of Elaine's older sister Chloe for a Christmas holiday. Chloe shares the house with Robbie, her husband, and two children, Nicky and Leah. Paulie is sick soon after the group arrives, which Elaine puts down to the journey. Once the presents are opened, Nicky and Leah show signs of an illness, and Leah coughs up black bile that holds unusual bacteria. By the next morning all of the children are pale and ill, and their behavior becomes disturbing. During lunch, Miranda abruptly attacks Chloe, and the children cry.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Children (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Tom Shankland won the Special Mention Award at the 2009 Fantasia International Film Festival for his professional approach to the children actors in the film.
- The film was shot at Cookhill Priory, once a Cistercian nunnery, and in the nearby villages of Cookhill and Alcester in Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
