This Is the Sea poster

Movie · 1997

This Is the Sea

Released 15 September 1997 More from 1997 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Ian McElhinney
as Da Stokes
49
John Lynch
as Padhar McAliskey
35
James Nesbitt
as Constable Hubert Porter
32
Richard Leaf
as Pastor Lamthorn
30
Samantha Morton
as Hazel Stokes
20
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
29years between the oldest and youngest billed
49Ian McElhinney — oldest on the call sheet
20Samantha Morton — youngest billed
33average age of the credited cast
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