The Lightkeepers  The Lightkeepers is a 2009 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Daniel Adams, and stars Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, Bruce Dern, Mamie Gummer, Tom Wisdom and Julie Harris in her final film role. Zana Messia wrote the film's theme song. In a two-week period beginning on Christmas 2009, the film earned $32,307 on a single screen. The film is set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1912 and follows the story of two lighthouse attendants, one young and one old, who swear to abstain from women, until two women arrive for their summer vacation. It is based upon "The Woman Haters: A Yarn of Eastboro Twin-Lights" (1911) by Joseph C. Lincoln.