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On Chesil Beach
2018 · Drama · Romance
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120 votes
A little chaos is good for the gathering.
Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
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Emily
October 25, 2025
**Awful acting** I am sorry but tessa thompson is a terrible lead actress. I saw her try to act in this movie as well as West World and she needs to find a new day job. My husband actually started laughing out loud at one of her "serious" scenes. Movie was pretty crummy anyway, I don't think a different lead actress would have saved it.
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November 1, 2025
I don't understand how the lead actress in this keeps getting parts? She's a terrible actress, it's like she is sitting at a table read and just reading her lines aloud. She has absolutely zero charisma and is is definitely not attractive, nor even cute. I guess Hollywood continues to cast people like her for **some reason**.
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November 20, 2025
Reinterpreting a classic work of art – no matter what medium it might initially be grounded in – can be a tricky task. This is true when jumping from one milieu to another, such as stage to screen, as well when altering the nature or elements of the work, such as its setting, time frame and characters. And, if more than one of these qualities undergoes transformation simultaneously, the metamorphosis can become consi…
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CinemaSerf
January 17, 2026
Right from the start, when we hear “Hedda” (Tessa Thompson) called to the phone, we can discern that Nia DaCosta has shifted the timeline from the late 1800s. Indeed, we now find ourselves in the middle of the 20th century in a grand stately home where her academic husband “George” (Tom Bateman) is imploring her to pull out all of the stops at a lavish party they are to host to impress “Prof. Greenwood” (Finbar Lynch…
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