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The Light Between Oceans
Directed by
Derek Cianfrance
PG-13
2016
2h 13m
Drama
,
Romance
7.2
62%
61%
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A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.
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Cast of The Light Between Oceans
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
Benedict Hardie
Constable Harry Garstone
Georgie Jean Gascoigne
1 yr old Lucy / Grace
Scott Wills
McGowan (uncredited)
Jane Menelaus
Violet Graysmark
Garry McDonald
Bill Graysmark
Stephen Ure
Neville Whittnish
Peter McCauley
Sergeant Spragg
Jonathan Wagstaff
Constable Bob Lynch
Gerald Bryan
Captain Percy Hasluck
Elizabeth Hawthorne
Mrs. Hasluck
Rosella Hart
Freda
Michael Wallace
Reverend Norkels
Peter Hayden
Dr. Sumpton
Gary Blackman
Bernie Gutcher
Carmel McGlone
Bertha Chipper
Jeffrey Thomas
Cyril Chipper
Edwin Lancashire
Piano Tuner
Dean Morganty
Drunken Soldier
Elsa May
Mrs. Mouchmore
Kerrie Waterworth
Fanny Darnley
John Bach
Mayor Jock Johnson
Marshall Napier
Mr. Coughlan
Hilary Norris
Matron
Miriam Noonan
Maisee McPhee
Graham Warman
Town Photographer
George Vozar
Police Photographer
Imogen Wilmhurst
Lucy-Grace 12 Months Old
Lucy Wilmhurst
Lucy-Grace 12 Months Old
Emily Wilmhurst
Lucy-Grace 12 Months Old
Elliot Newbery
Lucy-Grace 3 Months Old
Evangeline Newbery
Lucy-Grace 3 Months Old
Christine Foote
Lucy-Grace Newborn
Thomas Unger
Bluey Smart
Derek Cianfrance
Director / Writer
M.L. Stedman
Writer
David Heyman
Producer
The Light Between Oceans Ratings & Reviews
Ryezoo
February 20, 2025
TAMEST SEX SCENES EVER! Anyways this film is incredibly acted and beautifully shot. You become attached to these characters and you want what's best for them. The motivations and the consequences of the the characters though are a little hit or miss. There's never that standout emotional scene that really hits and the third act flys by important moments. The film keeps you intrigued enough to never bore and it's worth a watch sometime, but maybe not in theaters.
Culturess
Kristen Lopez
With strong acting as its anchor, breathtaking cinematography accompanies this tale guaranteed to tug on those heartstrings.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
From lesser actors, the story would have definitely become the worst Nicholas Sparks film adaptation ever. But they make you feel for them, even when they're making poor life decisions that you know will end miserably.
Newsweek
Tom Shone
I suspect a doomed romance of another sort has unfurled: Acclaimed indie director falls for slush bucket best-seller and thinks he can "redeem" it with great cinematography and Oscar-winning actors.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Stand back from this fable and examine it for logic, and you see how nonsensical it is.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The movie ends up seeming like an inchoate hybrid of melodrama and psychodrama-between the oceans, indeed.
The Atlantic
David Sims
The movie errs most with its main plot, which requires the characters to behave with utmost stupidity, sacrificing its hard-earned storytelling for a frustrating payoff.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Fassbender is glorious, while Vikander is his equal.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
The Light Between Oceans is stunning to see, and the performances are of the highest caliber, but it's all packaged in a story that just doesn't earn its stay, or our tears.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Fassbenderand Vikander, who fell in love during the making of the film, fully commit to their roles and hold us in their grip. The movie, sad to say, can't keep its head above water.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Buried beneath this melodrama-but shining through nearly enough to justify a look-one can see the film that could have been.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
There's real emotion and consequence in this three-hankie weepie. It earns its tears.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Pretty sure I spotted a credit at the end of the movie for a tear-bucket grip.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Fassbender and Vikander give powerful performances and their on-screen chemistry holds the film together when the story wavers.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
At the climax the wife makes a decision antithetical to her character, and a morally complex film derails into hackneyed Nicholas Sparks territory.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
[Director] Cianfrance has one chance to lighten the load, to unleash a little visual magic to boost the narrative contrivance, and all he can summon are handheld shots of crashing foam.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Regardless of how The Light Between Oceans affects you -- visually, dramatically or through the fierce, tormented emotions it provokes -- affect you it will.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Fassbender and Vikander make the film work, just.
NPR
Andrew Lapin
It builds a gripping morality play, with characters as fierce and hardened as the choppy waves that crash onto the shore from all directions.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
The actors hurl themselves into their roles with sufficient commitment and feeling that you believe in Tom and Isabel completely, even when the creaky narrative machinery around them begins to trigger your skepticism.
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