Ondine
The truth is not what you know. It's what you believe.
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking.His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys.One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her.He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's.
- Director
- Neil Jordan
- Worldwide
- $2M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land. Syracuse is afraid to hope again.
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Box Office & Release
Ondine returned 0.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $12M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Mar 5, 2010
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English, Romanian
- Country
- Ireland, United States of America
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