The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)

Directed by

John Sayles

Genre

fantasy film, children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 98 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl in coastal Ireland moves in with her grandparents. She learns the legend of selkies and believes a selkie has taken her baby brother.

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What happens

The Secret of Roan Inish is a 1994 independent fantasy-adventure film written and directed by John Sayles. It is based on the 1957 novel Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, by Rosalie K. Fry. It is centered on the Irish and Orcadian folklores of selkies—seals that can shed their skins to become human. The story, set on the west coast of Ulster in the north-west of Ireland, is about Fiona, a young girl who is sent to live with her grandparents and her cousin Eamon near the island of Roan Inish, where the selkies are rumored to reside. It is a family legend that her younger brother was swept away in his infancy and raised by a selkie. Part of the film takes place in Donegal Town. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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