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Ammonite is a 2020 romantic drama film written and directed by Francis Lee. The film is loosely inspired by the life of British palaeontologist Mary Anning, played by Kate Winslet. The film centres on a romantic relationship between Anning and Charlotte Murchison, played by Saoirse Ronan. Gemma Jones, James McArdle, Alec Secăreanu, and Fiona Shaw also star.

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2020. It is scheduled to be released in Australia on 14 January 2021, by Transmission Films, and in the United Kingdom on 26 March 2021, by Lionsgate.

In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now supports herself and her ailing widowed mother by hunting for common fossils to sell to rich tourists. One such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, with his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. He entrusts Charlotte to Mary's care. Mary cannot afford to refuse this employment but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with Charlotte. They are two women from utterly different worlds.

Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alters the course of both lives irrevocably.