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This is the Sea (1997)

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Mary McGuckian wrote and directed this "Romeo and Juliet"-style story set in Northern Ireland after the 1994 cease fire. Young Hazel Stokes (Samantha Morton) is very much a part of her family's austere, rural Protestant way of life, and her family, despite the cease-fire, feels betrayed by the British. Her neighbor, Old Man Jacobs (Richard Harris) befriends Hazel and convinces her parents to let her go out more often. When Hazel and Jacobs attend a Belfast agricultural show, she meets young

R, 1 hr. 45 min.

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Mary McGuckian

Feb 16, 1999

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This Romeo and Juliet story set in Northern Ireland is a winner, with... newcomers Samantha Morton and Ross McDade carrying the day.

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Daniel M. Kimmel
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