In 1912 Cape Cod, an irascible old lighthouse keeper and his young assistant have a parting of the ways; fortunately, another young man washes up on the beach the next day and is offered the position. The two disparate men have a smooth-and-scratchy relationship, eventually revealing old wounds from the past that have brought them to this point, such as why the old man is resolutely anti-female. Sporting a neatly-trimmed snow white beard, Richard Dreyfuss, who also served as an executive producer, is darkly-tanned like a life-sized Band-Aid; he doesn't have the New England accent down, nor does his manner or his general personality match up with the character he's portraying, but he gives this staunchly theatrical piece whatever life it has (it would be dead-on-arrival without him). Daniel Adams wrote and directed, as if he lived his entire life in front of the footlights. *1/2 from ****