Between land and sea there is a place where myths are real.
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Jeni CourtneyFiona
- Eileen ColganTess
- Mick LallyHugh
- John LynchTadhg
- Pat SloweyPriest
- Dave DuffyJim
- Declan HanniganOldest brother
- Richard SheridanEamon
- Micheal MacCarthaighSchoolmaster
- Fergal McElherronSean Michael
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- John SaylesDirector
- John SaylesScreenplay
- Rosalie K. FryNovel
- Haskell WexlerDirector of Photography
- Mason DaringOriginal Music Composer
- John SaylesEditor
- Sarah GreenProducer
- Maggie RenziProducer
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