On the Sea (2025) on Netflix
Jack, who harvests mussels in a North Wales town, has been Maggie's husband for over half his life. Son Tom resists the family trade, and Jack is drawn to Daniel, a deckhand.
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- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb7.0/101,182 votes
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Plot summary
Jack earns his living harvesting mussels in a town in North Wales. He and Maggie have been married for over half his life. Their son Tom shows little interest in taking up the family trade, which troubles Jack. Daniel arrives in the community as an itinerant deckhand. Jack meets him, an attraction grows between the two men, and for Jack it poses an impossible dilemma that complicates relationships within the community.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about On the Sea (2025)
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- Helen Walsh loosely based the film on a real person she knew, and developed it around the mussel-harvesting communities of North Wales, whose setting informed the story and its themes.
- On the Sea was made on a budget of under £1 million, shot with a small crew using a scaled-down production approach.
