The Eclipse
2009 · Movie · R · 88 min · ★ 6.0 · 71% critics
A grieving parent in a quiet Irish coastal town is trying to hold family life together while being haunted by disturbing visions. During a literary festival, a tentative new connection and a tense romantic rivalry intertwine with a subdued ghost story about loss and loneliness.
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Details
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-04-24
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 71/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 (60 votes)
About
You may click with this if you want a quiet, grief-tinged supernatural drama in the vein of The Night House or The Awakening; Not for you if you want nonstop scares, a fast pace, or a tightly packed plot.
Pros: strong lead performance; moody ghost-story atmosphere; thoughtful grief drama | Cons: thin plot; light on scares; uneven romance thread
Themes
- suicide
- nightmare
- father
- apparition
- writer
- ireland
- novelist
- ghost
- graveyard
- grieving
- seaside town
- drunkenness
- +1 more
Cast & crew
Ciarán Hinds
as Michael Farr
Iben Hjejle
as Lena Morelle
Aidan Quinn
as Nicholas Holden
Jim Norton
as Malachy
Éanna Hardwicke
as Thomas Farr
- VS
Valerie Spelman
as Jenny Sewell
- BR
Billy Roche
as Jim Belton
Donncha Crowley
as Writer
Casper Christensen
as Writer
- JL
Jean Law
as Susan Holden
Directed by Conor McPherson