Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold. Mullan is very good at suggesting the careworn wisdom of someone who has to be a father figure, or even grandfather figure to men who don’t have his skill in self-control and self-denial. : The Vanishing : Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Emma King. It’s a very powerfully performed, intimate piece, perhaps inspired at some level by the classic adventure The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The lighthouse keeper movie with Gerard Butler was way better than this one. A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. Synopsis: Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an honorable family man, until the day his wife and daughter are murdered in a. With Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn. But the dead man may have living colleagues who want their treasure chest back. Two lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) fight each other. Critics Consensus: Unnecessarily violent and unflinchingly absurd, Law Abiding Citizen is plagued by subpar acting and a story that defies reason. By Frank Scheck Janu11:44am A perpetually mist-covered. Gerard Butler plays one of three lighthouse keepers on a remote island who discover a hidden trunk of gold in this confined thriller based on the Flannan. It was filmed at a number of spots in Dumfries and Galloway and on the Firth of Clyde in 2017. As the senior ranking officer, Thomas orders Donald to go down on to the rocks to investigate, with terrible results.ĭonald, James and Thomas are then galvanised by the chest’s stunningly valuable contents, and alive to the possibility of keeping them, while making a false report to the authorities. Peter Mullan and Gerard Butler play Scottish lighthouse keepers in Kristoffer Nyholms 1930s-set thriller The Vanishing. The Vanishing - previously entitled Keepers - stars Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan and Connor Swindells. To their astonishment one day, they find a wrecked lifeboat down on the rocks with what appears to be a single dead man, and a locked chest. James ( Gerard Butler) and Thomas ( Peter Mullan) are two seasoned, grizzled old lighthouse keepers settling in for a six-week stretch of duty, along with a nervy young recruit, Donald (Connor Swindells). On an uninhabited island 20 miles from the rugged Scottish coast, three lighthouse keepers arrive for their 6 week shift. What The Vanishing posits is not an alien abduction, or spontaneous combustion, but a tale of fear, self-preservation and greed.
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