Edward (Billy Howle) and Florence (Saoirse Ronan) are newlyweds spending their big night on a romantic island called Chesil Beach. For most couples, this would represent the most exotic getaway ...

Though beautifully photographed and well cast, the earnest love story based on an Ian McEwan novel often comes off as parody.

The newlyweds are in a lovely hotel suite on Chesil Beach, along England's south coast, ... Neither does the movie, which catches up with the characters years down the road, ...

“On Chesil Beach” is a heartbreaking love story about marriage and trying to make it work. Deco went to London to talk to the cast -chesil-beach-cast-talk-romance/">Read More</a> ...

It is mostly admired from afar — in his book England’s 100 Best Views, Simon Jenkins recommends you park up on the B-road west of Abbotsbury for the best panorama.Up close it is little known ...

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A SPEED limit could be introduced for roads leading to the west Dorset coast. There is a plan for a 30mph speed limit for roads in the Abbotsbury area. These are: Cleverlawns, Bullers Way and part of ...

★★½ “On Chesil Beach,” with Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson. Directed by Dominic Cooke, from a screenplay by Ian McEwan, based on a novel by McEwan. 110 minutes. Rated R for some ...

As D Day approached Weymouth was filled with American Troops and a large area alongside the road between Wyke and Portland adjoining Chesil Beach was cleared and flattened to be used as a pre ...

But On Chesil Beach belongs to its stars: the always-great Ronan, and Howle, who with the one-two punch of this film and The Seagull comes into his own as one of today’s most promising new stars.

As a 2007 Booker Prize nominee, Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach is beloved by most people that have read it, even though there’s still a debate over whether, at 166 pages, it is actually a novel ...