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The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.


“Love demands everything”
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Michael Fassbender
Tom Sherbourne

Alicia Vikander
Isabel Sherbourne

Rachel Weisz
Hannah Roennfeldt

Bryan Brown
Septimus Potts

Jack Thompson
Ralph Addicott

Caren Pistorius
Adult Lucy-Grace
Florence Clery
Lucy-Grace

Anthony Hayes
Sergeant Vernon Knuckey

Emily Barclay
Gwen Potts

Leon Ford
Frank Roennfeldt
The Light Between Oceans is a drama, romance film released in 2016 exploring themes of australia, based on novel or book, marriage, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper , miscarriage. Directed by Derek Cianfrance, it stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz. A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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