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Audience Member great movie!! good storyline and handsome men!!! plot thickens... all around good!!! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Frances H Bittersweet tale of lost love, grief, and the sea, with breathtaking cinematography of the coast of Nova Scotia in a haunting film that reminds me somewhat of Ondine. Lynn Redgrave is wonderful, as is Julia Brendler. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/24/13 Full Review Audience Member Canadian writer-director Sheri Elwood did this fine film set in a small fishing town where writer Lynn Redgrave has written a story that gets depicted within the movie as she tells the story to a disgruntled teen girl (Julia Brendler) Two films in one. Redgrave's story about a sadden girl parallels that of Brendler's. Kirsten Dunst plays the story-girl and gets top billing, which Brendler, who is very good, doesn't. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Soggy love story of interest only to Dunst diehards. Here she sports some young rugged beauty, enviable long golden hair, and among the worst Canadian accents ever heard. The location of this isolated fishing isle is never specified so, judging from the dialects, for a time I thought it was near Ireland until I began picking out the faces of some familiar Canadian actors. However all the musical cues are distinctly Irish, so who knows? Regardless, Kirsten sounds like she spent some misplaced deep-fried Southern time.Part of the movie takes place in the present where we're supposed to sympathize with a sullen teenage brat (Julia Brendler); part of my brain was whispering "Jump!!" after she climbed in despair to the top of a lighthouse. She meets a crusty old unpublished author (Lynn Redgrave) who recounts her latest work, and that's the story that sluggishly plays out during most of the film. Writer/director Sheri Elwood touches upon a curse that plagues this fishing community every 50 years and hints at a dark secret to lift the curse, but nothing ever comes of the foreshadowing. Much of the rest of the script is similarly underwritten with only a couple characters gaining any foothold, but at least the vital ingredient of the budding romance between Dunst and naval captain's son Trent Ford works. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member left me hanging in the end..I think there should have been more to it.. Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Kristen Dunst had the worse accent ever! Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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