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On Chesil Beach

  • 20172017
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Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle in On Chesil Beach (2017)
In England, 1962, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
12K
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    • Dominic Cooke
    • Ian McEwan(screenplay)
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    • Billy Howle
    • Saoirse Ronan
    • Andy Burse
    • Dominic Cooke
    • Ian McEwan(screenplay)
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    • Billy Howle
    • Saoirse Ronan
    • Andy Burse
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    • 104User reviews
    • 139Critic reviews
    • 62Metascore
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    Billy Howle
    Billy Howle
    • Edward Mayhew
    Saoirse Ronan
    Saoirse Ronan
    • Florence Ponting
    Andy Burse
    • Waiter One
    Rasmus Hardiker
    Rasmus Hardiker
    • Waiter Two
    Anne-Marie Duff
    Anne-Marie Duff
    • Marjorie Mayhew
    Adrian Scarborough
    Adrian Scarborough
    • Lionel Mayhew
    Mia Burgess
    • Harriet Mayhew
    Anna Burgess
    • Anne Mayhew
    Emily Watson
    Emily Watson
    • Violet Ponting
    Bebe Cave
    • Ruth Ponting
    Samuel West
    Samuel West
    • Geoffrey Ponting
    John Ramm
    • Postman Terry
    Barney Iley
    • Timothy
    Mark Donald
    Mark Donald
    • Charles
    Imogen Daines
    Imogen Daines
    • Jenny
    Molly Miles
    • Sonia
    Victoria Hamnett
    • Elsbeth
    Marianne Cecil
    • Young Florence
      • Dominic Cooke
      • Ian McEwan(screenplay) (novel)
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    • Trivia
      Executive Producer, Author, and Screenwriter Ian McEwan stated to an audience back in 2014 that he wanted Saoirse Ronan to play Florence Ponting.
    • Goofs
      In the tennis match between Edward and Florence's father (Geoffrey), they're either counting the games wrong or not alternating service properly. Edward begins serving at the start of the third set, so he should be serving when the game score is even. We immediately jump forward to a later game in which Geoffrey is serving. Geoffrey loses the game (for a change), and Edward announces the score as 1-4 before serving, which means he is now serving when the game score is odd.

      It's also slightly off that Geoffrey starts serving the first set, and then Geoffrey begins serving the third set after 12 games. This, however, could simply be the result of Geoffrey letting Edward begin serving the third set, out-of-order and out of strict compliance with the rules, as a sop after beating him 6-0, 6-0 in the first two sets.
    • Quotes

      Florence Ponting: Edward, I want to make you happy. But I think I'm always a disappointment. You're always advancing, I'm always backing away, and we can't talk about it. We can never just be happy... or just be. You're always demanding something more and I'm useless at... And you go silent and unhappy and it's all my fault. And when I do... I mean when I say yes to something, even if I don't really want to, I know there'll be another thing that I'm expected to do. I'm no good at these demands.

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    7/10
    Stylish
    Saw this at the London Film Festival. Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle enter the perilous territory of marriage in a slow, sleek coming-of-age story adapted from Ian McEwan's 2007 novel. I found the cinematography to be superb, the play of colours very well done in accordance to the mood. I wish there had been more development near the end, but the film was sufficiently beguiling to give it a 7/10.
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      • May 18, 2018 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
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      • Chesil Beach, Dorset, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • BBC Films
      • Number 9 Films
      • Golan Films
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