The Light Between Oceans Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

In the years following World War I, Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender), a young veteran still numb from his years in combat, takes a job as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a remote island off the coast of Western Australia. As the island’s sole inhabitant, he finds comfort in the monotony of the chores and the solitude of his surroundings. When he meets the daughter of the school’s headmaster, Isabel Graysmark (Alicia Vikander), in the local town of Partageuse on the mainland, Tom is immediately captivated by her beauty, wit and passion, and they are soon married and living on the island. As their love flourishes, he begins to feel again, their happiness marred only by their inability to start a family, so when a rowboat with a dead man and infant girl mysteriously washes ashore, Isabel believes their prayers may have finally been answered. As a man of principle, Tom is torn between reporting the lost child and pleasing the woman he loves, and against his better judgment he agrees to let Isabel raise the child as their own, making a choice with devastating consequences.

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Drama Adaptation

• 
  Rachel Weisz

  Black Widow, 360

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  Alicia Vikander

  ... Isabel Sherbourne

  Ex Machina, The Green Knight

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  Michael Fassbender

  ... Tom Sherbourne

  Black Bag, Prometheus

• C
  Caren Pistorius

  ... Adult Lucy Grace

  Unhinged, The Marsh King’s Daughter

• E
  Emily Barclay

  ... Gwen Potts

  Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, In My Father's Den

• F
  Florence Clery

  ... Lucy-Grace

• J
  Jack Thompson

  ... Ralph Addicott

  Australia, Eucalyptus

• T
  Thomas Unger

  ... Bluey Smart

• J
  Jane Menelaus

  ... Violet Graysmark

Who is making The Light Between Oceans – Crew List

A look at The Light Between Oceans behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Derek Cianfrance last helmed Roofman and The Place Beyond the Pines. The film's writer Derek Cianfrance last penned The Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentine.

Director

Derek Cianfrance

Screenwriter

Derek Cianfrance

Producers

Jeffrey Clifford
David Heyman

Production – What we know about the The Light Between Oceans

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Key Facts

• Based on the debut novel by M.L. Stedman.

Movie Filming Timeline: Production Status Updates

Aug 2015

Completed

Changed The Light Between Oceans movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

Sep 2013

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. Derek Cianfrance, who last directed the Ryan Gosling drama The Place Beyond the Pines, has been hired to direct.

Nov 2012

Announced

Changed the movie production status to Announced. DreamWorks is in talks to pick up the movie rights to the debut novel by M.L. Stedman.

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