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The Light Between Oceans
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2256
- IMDb #1773
- Google retired #1211
- Rotten Tomatoes #3017
- Metacritic #2454
- Letterboxd #2414
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3203
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3317
- Metacritic Critics #2434
- Metacritic Audience #2518
- AlloCiné #736
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 60, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 61, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A lighthouse keeper and his wife live a solitary and peaceful life on a remote Australian island following World War I. Their happiness is clouded by their inability to have a child. One day, a rowboat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a crying, healthy baby girl. They decide to raise the child as their own, a choice that has devastating consequences years later when they discover the child's real mother is alive and grieving.
Details
- Director
- Derek Cianfrance
- Writer
- Derek Cianfrance
- Based on
- The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
- Released
- 2 September 2016
- Country
- India, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $26.0M
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