The Whales of August (1987)

Description

Libby (Davis) and Sarah (Gish) are widowed siblings who have vactioned since children at the seaside cottage in Maine. Now in their eighties and with their husbands and what children they had behind them, they have only each other. Libby blind and resistantly dependent on her sister; Sarah still looking for new ways to see the world. Their relationship with their old friend Tisha and the arrival of a charming Russian gentleman will bring storms to the already turbulent ocean between them - an ocean which nevertheless runs deep.