Video Review

This is the Sea (1999)

EW's GRADE
C+

Details Release Date: Feb 16, 1999; Movie Rated: R; Genre: Drama; With: Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris and Samantha Morton; Distributor: Paramount Pictures

In this ambitious straight-to-tape drama set in Northern Ireland's uneasy present, a farm girl (Morton), encouraged by a family friend (Harris), bucks her staunchly Protestant upbringing by falling for a Catholic who's being recruited by the IRA. More of a scratchy, rough-knit shawl than the tapestry of politics, religion, and romance This is the Sea aspires to be. C+

Originally posted Feb 19, 1999 Published in issue #472-473 Feb 19, 1999 Order article reprints

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