Based on the Book of Exodus, with an interfaith love story added to spice things up, it depicts three of the plagues and the parting of the Red Sea all of which can be headaches for a producer.

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This incident brings to mind a lesser-known fact about the Hamptons: it's a place where conservative Wall Street tycoons have long co-existed with artists, many of whom love the delicate, ever-changing light that results from the region being almost entirely surrounded by sea.

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The very existence of the gods was inseparable from that of a storm, a sea, a river, or from those powerful human emotions love, rage or sexual passion that seemed momentarily to lift men and women onto a different plane of existence so that they saw the world with new eyes.

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