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Island (2011)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate for revenge, she decides to find her birth mother, confront her, and bitter enough to consider murder. She travels incognito to a remote Hebridean island where Phyllis now lives as a recluse with Calum, her son.
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, art house
Plot:
island, incestuous relationship, undercover, family problems, hidden identity, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, dishonesty, illicit affair, storm, mother, mother daughter relationship, loneliness, feminist, orphan, redemption, obsessive quest, abandoned baby, female vigilante, ferry, belt, woman slaps man, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, europe
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Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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419
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Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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