Cormorant *OP

For a young couple, the small cottage tucked away in a quiet village in the mountains of north Wales, a legacy from a distant, estranged uncle, is a dream come true. The one condition of the inheritance is that they keep the uncle's beloved pet cormorant. They soon discover, however, that the cormorant is no mere bird, but a foul and malignant creature that may exact a greater price than they are willing to pay. Produced by the BBC as a TV film starring Ralph Fiennes.

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A history teacher moves, with his wife and baby son, into a newly-inherited cottage in northern, seaside Wales. The terms of the inheritance dictate that he must care for his dead uncle's cormorant. It's just a bird, but in the eyes of this man and his family, the cormorant looms as a relentless, malign presence -- "as ugly and poisonous as a vampire bat" -- and seems to draw the small boy under its spell. A tightly written, erotically charged drama about people who do not know themselves and cannot come to terms with the natural world and its inescapable strangeness.

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