The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Director:
Derek Cianfrance
Tagline:
« Love demands everything »
Actors:
Tom Sherbourne
Isabel Graysmark
Hannah Roennfeldt
Lucy-Grace
Ralph Addicott
Rating:
(63’293 votes)
(63’293 votes)
Quotes:
« Frank Roennfeldt: You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day, all the time. You have to keep remembering the bad things. It's too much work.
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« Isabel Graysmark: [in letter to her daughter] I'd promised I'd stay away from you, and I've stuck to my word. However hard that was for me. I'm gone now. Which is why you have this letter. And it brings me joy because it means that you came to find us. I never gave up hope that you would. Knowing you were safe and loved allowed us to live our lives away from you. I hope life has been kind to you. I hope that you can forgive me for keeping you. And for letting you go. Know that you have always been beloved. -addl lines
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« Isabel Graysmark: I can tell you lots about me. My mom taught me the piano.
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« Tom Sherbourne: You still play?
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« Isabel Graysmark: Not that well. My brothers used to tease me awfully when I played. I lost both of them – in the War. Just must be so confusing for my parents. I mean, if a wife loses a husband she becomes a widow, but if a parent loses a child there's no special label for it. You're still a mother or father. Even if you no longer have a child. Sometimes I wonder, if I'm still technically a sister now when my brothers are gone.
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Trailer:
U.S. Trailer
Runtime:133 minutes
Plots:
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.
War-weary Tom takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on an island for the solitude. He meets beautiful young Isabel and they eventually marry. One day they see a small dinghy floating in the ocean; inside it are an infant and a man. They rush to rescue them and discover that the man is dead. They struggle over the decision to report it and whether to keep the baby. Heartbroken over her two previous miscarriages, Isabel persuades Tom to not tell anyone about the man and to take the girl on as their own child. Succumbing to her persuasion just to make her happy, Tom buries the man on the island and they name the girl Lucy. Years later they discover that the girl still has a mother who is looking for her.
Emotionally-scarred from the exposure to the horrors of WWI, traumatized veteran Tom Sherbourne lands a job as a lighthouse-keeper at remote Janus Island in Western Australia. But there, instead of self-punishment, withdrawn Tom finds Isabel: a headstrong and sparky young woman offering companionship, love, and the prospect of a new family and a brighter future. Then, as the hoped-for baby never arrives, a rowboat carrying a baby girl washes up ashore, answering Isabel’s prayers. Is this, indeed, divine intervention? Torn between duty and grief, Tom’s only choice is to yield to Isabel’s heartbreaking plea to keep and raise the baby as their own. However, a chance encounter with an enigmatic woman on the mainland can only spell trouble, highlighting man’s flawed perfection and the rippling impact of his actions.
