The Light Between Oceans (2016) Reviews & Ratings

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The Light Between Oceans reviews

The Light Between Oceans holds a 7.1/10 average from 1,445 TMDB ratings.

**A tale of imbalance between love and grief.** The film was based on the Australian novel of the same name. It was a recent book, but a period drama about a World War I veteran who just returned home. So I feel this film was made too soon. Because it seems so classic, only if we had given some time to pick up its popularity. I mean the literature version which at least needed a decade of freedom before heading to t…
— Reno (8/10)

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

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