The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper

From the beginning, they knew it was wrong....but nothing could keep them apart!

1965117 min6.4 / 10

A romantic drama about two people drawn together across social boundaries, caught between desire and moral constraint in a picturesque California setting.

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

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