The Shell Seekers
Seen it?2007 | 174 min | Drama, Romance
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for romantics. If you loved We Live in Time or A Place in the Sun, start here.
- The mood
- Warm and romantic.
- The pace
- Unhurried and epic, at 2 hr 54 min.
- What might put you off
- It's long: 2 hr 54 min.
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 6K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Piers Haggard
- Vanessa RedgravePenelope Keeling
- Maximilian SchellLawrence Sterne
- Charles EdwardsNoel Keeling
- Prunella ScalesDolly Keeling
- Victoria SmurfitOlivia Keeling
- Victoria HamiltonNancy Chamberlaine
- Sebastian KochCosmo König
- Stephanie StumphAntonia König
- Richard HopeGeorge Chamberlaine
- Lucas GregorowiczDanus Muirfield