Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Blackwater Lightship 2004


Product Details     Based on a novel by Com Toibin.  Declan Kehoe is a 30 year-old Irishman suffering from a terminal illness.  He hasn’t let anyone in his family know he’s sick until he had to go to the hospital.  He has a friend contact his sister and she tells his mother and grandmother.  He wants to leave the hospital for as long as he can and stay by the shore at his granny’s house.  His granny, sister, mother and two friends help him settle in until he will need to return to the hospital.  There had been a fracture in his family between all the women but it begins to heal when they are all faced with this emergency.
     OK, this is a Hallmark movie, prepare to get out the tissues!!  I was able to get through this without a single tear by perseverance.   The story is told with a lot of flashbacks but is well done with beautiful photography of the Irish coastline.  3* (This movie is OK)

120 min, Drama directed by John Erman with Dianne Wiest, Gina McKee, Keith McErlean, Angela Lansbury, Frank MCusker, Brian F. O’Byrne.

Note:  Imdb 7.0 out of 10, 62% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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