When she departs, he reads the headstone and sees that her husband and young infant were lost at sea, right around the time when young Lucy arrived. Isabel pleads for Tom to let them keep and pass off the child as their own and after much thought and fretting, he reluctantly agrees.īut during a return trip to the mainland, he happens across a young woman (Rachel Weisz) in the local cemetery. As luck or fate would have it, it's not long after the second that a rowboat drifts nearby carrying a dead father and that's man young and still alive infant. That results in two pregnancies, but both end up as miscarriages, devastating the young woman. After a brief stint of being pen pals (what with her back on the mainland of Australia while he's off on a remote and desolate island), the two (played by Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander) marry and get busy trying to have kids. Those are the two main characters and that's the kicking off point for "The Light Between Oceans," writer/director Derek Cianfrance's adaptation of the 2012 novel of the same name by M. With such advances decades away, young Isabel Sherbourne is so instantly smitten with Tom Sherbourne upon first meeting him and inviting him out for a picnic that she offers to marry the war veteran so that she can see the lighthouse where he's taken a temporary job following a four-year tour in WWI France. Of course, nowadays such towering beacons are pretty much automated and ships use more modern means of avoiding the nastiness of running aground in the dark or bad weather. While that song is probably best known for being the odd man out ditty heard in Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," it sums up the old romantic notion of living by and operating some old lighthouse on most any coast in the world. I'll polish his lamps by the light of dayĮrika Eigen "I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper" OUR TAKE: 5 out of 10 I want to marry a lighthouse keeper He eventually learns that she was disinherited from the estate of her wealthy father, Septimus Potts (BRYAN BROWN), for marrying a German man, Frank (LEON FORD) who - fearful for his life and that of their child at the hands of anti-German locals - fled into the sea never to be seen again.įrom that point on, Tom finds himself torn about what to do regarding his young daughter, Lucy (FLORENCE CLERY), and whether he and Isabel should come clean about what's transpired. It's then that Tom spots Hannah Roennfeldt (RACHEL WEISZ) crying near a grave, and after she leaves he views the headstone, only to realize she's the child's mother. Things become more complicated when the family returns to the mainland to visit Isabel's family. Being a rule follower and moral man, he's reluctant, but seeing the joy the child brings to his wife, he eventually gives in and agrees. That eventually leads to romance, marriage, and her moving to the island with him.īut two miscarriages later, she's so distraught that when a rowboat drifts by with a dead man and crying baby inside, she pleads for Tom to allow them to keep the child and raise it as their own. She's a young woman who's instantly smitten with him, and the two become steady pen pals. Before heading off for his solitary job, he's treated to dinner by some locals on the mainland and that's where he meets Isabel Graysmark (ALICIA VIKANDER). Accordingly, he takes a temporary job as the lighthouse keeper at Janus Rock, a remote island off the coast of Australia that's so removed from civilization that the last keeper went crazy. PLOT: It's 1918 and after serving four years in WWI, Tom Sherbourne (MICHAEL FASSBENDER) would like a little peace and solitude. QUICK TAKE: Drama: A post-WWI lighthouse keeper and his wife, who've just suffered through their second miscarriage, rescue a baby from the sea and raise it as their own, all while the girl's mother grieves over her lost child and husband. (2016) (Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander) (PG-13)
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