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Deeply

Play trailer Poster for Deeply Released Sep 11, 2000 1h 40m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay (Alberta Watson) arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair (Julia Brendler), hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl (Kirsten Dunst) and more so in the stories of Celia (Lynn Redgrave), a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.

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Globe and Mail Rated: 2/4 Mar 19, 2002 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 17, 2005 Full Review Rachel Sanders Apollo Guide Rated: 64/100 Mar 16, 2004 Full Review Graham Barron Apollo Guide Rated: 64/100 Jan 10, 2002 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com A dull updating of a classic. Rated: 2/5 Dec 30, 2001 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member great movie!! good storyline and handsome men!!! plot thickens... all around good!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Frances H Bittersweet tale of lost love, grief, and the sea, with breathtaking cinematography of the coast of Nova Scotia in a haunting film that reminds me somewhat of Ondine. Lynn Redgrave is wonderful, as is Julia Brendler. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/24/13 Full Review Audience Member Canadian writer-director Sheri Elwood did this fine film set in a small fishing town where writer Lynn Redgrave has written a story that gets depicted within the movie as she tells the story to a disgruntled teen girl (Julia Brendler) Two films in one. Redgrave's story about a sadden girl parallels that of Brendler's. Kirsten Dunst plays the story-girl and gets top billing, which Brendler, who is very good, doesn't. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Soggy love story of interest only to Dunst diehards. Here she sports some young rugged beauty, enviable long golden hair, and among the worst Canadian accents ever heard. The location of this isolated fishing isle is never specified so, judging from the dialects, for a time I thought it was near Ireland until I began picking out the faces of some familiar Canadian actors. However all the musical cues are distinctly Irish, so who knows? Regardless, Kirsten sounds like she spent some misplaced deep-fried Southern time. Part of the movie takes place in the present where we're supposed to sympathize with a sullen teenage brat (Julia Brendler); part of my brain was whispering "Jump!!" after she climbed in despair to the top of a lighthouse. She meets a crusty old unpublished author (Lynn Redgrave) who recounts her latest work, and that's the story that sluggishly plays out during most of the film. Writer/director Sheri Elwood touches upon a curse that plagues this fishing community every 50 years and hints at a dark secret to lift the curse, but nothing ever comes of the foreshadowing. Much of the rest of the script is similarly underwritten with only a couple characters gaining any foothold, but at least the vital ingredient of the budding romance between Dunst and naval captain's son Trent Ford works. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member left me hanging in the end..I think there should have been more to it.. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Kristen Dunst had the worse accent ever! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay (Alberta Watson) arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair (Julia Brendler), hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl (Kirsten Dunst) and more so in the stories of Celia (Lynn Redgrave), a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.
Director
Sheri Elwood
Producer
Karen Arikian, Carolynne Bell
Screenwriter
Sheri Elwood
Distributor
Odeon Films, Myriad Pictures
Production Co
Bellwood Stories, TiMe Film- und TV-Produktions GmbH [de], VIP
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 11, 2000, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Aug 24, 2005
Runtime
1h 40m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)