This look at a fraught family reunion should be easily relatable, but The Sea drowns viewers in melodrama when it should be carrying them toward darkly comedic shores.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Baltasar Kormákur -
Producer -
Baltasar Kormákur , Jean-François Fonlupt -
Screenwriter -
Baltasar Kormákur , Olafur Haukur Simonarson -
Distributor -
Palm Pictures -
Rating -
R (Language|Sexuality) -
Genre -
Drama -
Original Language -
Icelandic -
Release Date (Theaters) -
May 16, 2003, Wide -
Release Date (DVD) -
May 13, 2008 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$62.3K -
Runtime -
1h 49m -
Sound Mix -
Surround
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