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Grand Isle (1991)

Grand Isle poster
Directed by
Mary Lambert
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married woman in the late 1800s vacations with her family on an island resort. She begins a flirtation with a younger man and starts to question her role as a wife and mother.

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What happens

Grand Isle is a 1991 film directed by Mary Lambert. It is based on the early feminist novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. It starred Kelly McGillis as Edna Pontellier, Jon DeVries as Léonce Pontellier and Adrian Pasdar as Robert Lebrun. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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