When the Whales Came
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United Kingdom · 1989
Rated PG · 1h 40m
Director Clive Rees
Starring Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, Helen Pearce
Genre Drama
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A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
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