The Light Between Oceans
2016 · Movie · PG-13 · 133 min · ★ 7.1 · 61% critics
On a remote island off Western Australia, a lighthouse keeper and his wife try to build a quiet life after the war. When a baby washes ashore in a drifting boat, they take the child in, but the choice soon brings a painful moral dilemma that tests love, grief, and what it means to do the right thing.
Based on The Light Between Oceans
Also known as Une vie entre deux océans
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-09-02
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Critic score
- 61/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (1,426 votes)
- Budget
- $20,000,000
About
If you enjoy sweeping, old-fashioned romantic dramas built around tough moral choices and big emotions, this may land hard; Not for you if you dislike slow, tearjerking stories or predictable turns like in The Painted Veil.
Pros: powerful emotional pull; strong performances; striking seaside setting | Cons: slow build; some clichés; pacing feels uneven
Themes
- australia
- based on novel or book
- marriage
- lighthouse
- lighthouse keeper
- miscarriage
- lost child
- 1920s
- western australia
Cast & crew
Michael Fassbender
as Tom Sherbourne
Alicia Vikander
as Isabel Sherbourne
Rachel Weisz
as Hannah Roennfeldt
Bryan Brown
as Septimus Potts
Jack Thompson
as Ralph Addicott
Caren Pistorius
as Adult Lucy-Grace
- FC
Florence Clery
as Lucy-Grace
Anthony Hayes
as Sergeant Vernon Knuckey
Emily Barclay
as Gwen Potts
Leon Ford
as Frank Roennfeldt
Directed by Derek Cianfrance