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Directed by | John Sayles |
Screenplay by | John Sayles |
Based on | Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry by Rosalie K. Fry |
Produced by | Sarah Green Maggie Renzi |
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Cinematography | Haskell Wexler |
Edited by | John Sayles |
Music by | Mason Daring |
Production companies | Jones Entertainment Group Skerry Productions |
Distributed by | The Samuel Goldwyn Company First Look Pictures |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Countries | United States Ireland |
Language | English |
Budget | $5.7 million[1] |
Box office | $6,159,269[1] |
The Secret of Roan Inish is a 1994 independent fantasy-adventure film written and directed by John Sayles. It is based on the 1957 novel Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, by Rosalie K. Fry.[2][3]
It is centered on the Irish and Orcadian folklores of selkies—seals that can shed their skins to become human. The story, set on the west coast of Ulster in the north-west of Ireland, is about Fiona, a young girl who is sent to live with her grandparents and her cousin Eamon near the island of Roan Inish, where the selkies are rumored to reside. It is a family legend that her younger brother was swept away in his infancy and raised by a selkie. Part of the film takes place in Donegal Town.