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

A heart-breaking drama about fate, love, moral dilemmas and the lengths to which one couple will go to see their dreams realized.

Plot

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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.

Cited as official plot version from DreamWorksStudios.com

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Light Between Oceans.

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  Rachel Weisz

  Constantine, The Bourne Legacy

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  Alicia Vikander

  ... Isabel Sherbourne

  The Man From U.N.C.L.E, Burnt

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  Michael Fassbender

  ... Tom Sherbourne

  Black Bag, Prometheus

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  Caren Pistorius

  ... Adult Lucy Grace

  The Marsh King’s Daughter, High Ground

• E
  Emily Barclay

  ... Gwen Potts

  Baby Done, In My Father's Den

• F
  Florence Clery

  ... Lucy-Grace

• J
  Jack Thompson

  ... Ralph Addicott

  Australia, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

• T
  Thomas Unger

  ... Bluey Smart

• J
  Jane Menelaus

  ... Violet Graysmark

Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Derek Cianfrance last directed The Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentine. The film's writer Derek Cianfrance last wrote The Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentine.

Director

Derek Cianfrance

Screenwriter

Derek Cianfrance

Producers

Jeffrey Clifford
David Heyman

Production Details

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Key Facts

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

Production Updates for The Light Between Oceans

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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