Water Diviner, The

After a tenacious, deeply compassionate, widowed Australian farmer (Russell Crowe) loses his despondent, grief-stricken wife (Jacqueline McKenzie) to suicide in 1919 in this intriguing, well-acted, violent, unpredictable, factually based, 111-minute film based on Andrew Anastasios's novel, he goes to Istanbul to search for the bodies of his missing sons (Ryan Corr, James Fraser, and Ben O'Toole ) who fought in the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915, ends up staying at a hotel where he becomes attached to the widowed hotel manager (Olga Kurylenko) and her precocious 10-year-old son (Dylan Georgiades ), and is reluctantly helped by a Turkish major (Yilmaz Erdogan).
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