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An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.
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Guillermo del Toro (screenplay by), Vanessa Taylor (screenplay by) |1 more credit »
The film opens with voiceover by Giles (Richard Jenkins) who tells his story that turns into a beautiful poem at the end of the film. It braces the audience for sappiness, but as the film unfolds, Del Toro shows how sappiness can be done in movies in a good way – with the repeated use of the famous Alice Faye song…
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