<P> The Light Between Oceans is a 2016 romantic period drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance and based on the 2012 novel of the same name by M.L. Stedman . An international co-production between the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, the film stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Bryan Brown, and Jack Thompson . The film tells the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who rescue and adopt an infant girl adrift at sea . Years later, the couple discovers the child's true parentage and are faced with the moral dilemma of their actions . </P> <P> The Light Between Oceans had its world premiere at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2016, where it competed for the Golden Lion . The film was released by Touchstone Pictures in North America on September 2, 2016, being the last DreamWorks Pictures film distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through their 2011 output deal . The film was released in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2016, by Entertainment One Films . It received mixed reviews and grossed $26 million worldwide . </P> <P> Tom Sherbourne, a traumatised and withdrawn hero of World War I, is hired as a lightkeeper at Janus Rock, a lighthouse off the coast of Western Australia . He falls in love with a local girl, Isabel Graysmark, and they marry in 1921 . Isabel loses two pregnancies in three years, and fears she may never become a mother . </P> <P> Shortly after Isabel's second miscarriage, a rowboat containing a dead man and a newborn baby girl washes up on the shore near the lighthouse . Tom knows that regulations require him to report the discovery . However, Isabel fears that the baby will almost certainly be sent to an orphanage, and persuades Tom to pass the baby off as their own . Tom grudgingly agrees . He buries the man on the island and they name the girl Lucy . </P>

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