The Deep Blue Sea | |
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Directed by | Terence Davies |
Screenplay by | Terence Davies |
Based on | The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan |
Produced by | Sean O'Connor Kate Ogborn |
Starring | Rachel Weisz Tom Hiddleston Simon Russell Beale Harry Hadden-Paton |
Cinematography | Florian Hoffmeister |
Edited by | David Charap |
Music by | Samuel Barber |
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Distributed by | Artificial Eye[1] |
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Running time | 98 minutes[2] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $8 million[3] |
Box office | $3.1 million[1] |
The Deep Blue Sea is a 2011 British romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies and starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, and Simon Russell Beale. It is an adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play The Deep Blue Sea about the wife of a judge who engages in an affair with a former RAF pilot. This film version was funded by the UK Film Council and Film4, produced by Sean O'Connor and Kate Ogborn.
Filming began in late 2010 and it was released in the United Kingdom in 2011, the year of Rattigan's centenary. It was released in the United States in 2012 by distributor Music Box Films.[4][5]