The Light Between Oceans - Movie Review

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The movie is 2 hour & 13 minutes with Michael Fassbender (Tom), Alicia Vikander (Isabel), and Rachel Weisz (Hannah). The story takes place in Western Australia. The story is about a returning veteran from the First World War in Europe. He accepts a lighthouse keeper job on an island to have solitude. He meets his future wife when he returns to the mainland for a short visit. She proposes to him. He latter accepts her proposal and she lives with him on the island. Just the two of them. She has multiple miscarriages. She really wants a baby.  

I give it (5) *****

One day an infant is seen floating in a rowboat. Tom rescues the infant and wants to report the baby to the authorities. Isabel begs Tom to not report the infant so she can become a mother. They raise the child as their own and are very happy. One fateful day on a visit to the mainland Tom discovers their child's mother when he passed by a cemetery. Tom sees Hannah visiting a memorial for her husband and daughter lost a sea. The time frame that Tom and Isabel claimed the baby matches the dates on the memorial.

Tom and Isabel are now faced with a moral dilemma that will rip out their hearts. What should they do? So many lives are affected by the lie they have been living.

• I highly recommend seeing this movie.