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Moonfleet
Adventure, Drama, History
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy atmospheric historical adventure with gothic shadows, treasure-hunt intrigue, and a charismatic but unreliable mentor figure.
- Tone
- adventurous, eerie, bittersweet
- Payoff
- wonder, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- coming of age, loyalty, moral ambiguity, smuggling, redemption
- Setting
- eighteenth-century coastal England, foggy village, underground caverns and seaways
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TCM
