Once On This Island (2021)
Once On This Island is a book-based movie adapted from "My love, my love, or, The peasant girl" by Rosa Guy. This Music/Romance film is a direct adaptation, and its release date is February 13, 2021.
The Source Material
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Overview
Rosa Guy’s tropical retelling of “The Little Mermaid” is the gorgeous, tragic love story of Desiree, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the handsome, aristocratic young man whose life she has saved. When his upper-class family feels that Desiree’s…
About The Movie
Description
Once on This Island is a one-act musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, it is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring people together of different social classes.
Details
- Title
- Once On This Island
- Original Title
- Once On This Island
- Original Language
- EN
- Genres
- Music, Romance
- US Digital / TV
- February 13, 2021