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Graham Swift (novel)
Peter Prince (screenplay)
Release Date:
30 October 1992 (USA) more
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Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting - with his class, with his wife... more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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A masterful work more (16 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jeremy Irons | ... | Tom Crick |
 | Sinéad Cusack | ... | Mary Crick |
| Grant Warnock | ... | Young Tom |
 | Lena Headey | ... | Young Mary |
| Callum Dixon | ... | Freddie Parr |
 | Sean Maguire | ... | Peter (as Sean McGuire) |
 | Ross McCall | ... | Terry |
| Camilla Hebditch | ... | Shirley |
 | David Morrissey | ... | Dick Crick |
 | John Heard | ... | Lewis Scott |
 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | ... | Maggie Ruth |
 | Ethan Hawke | ... | Matthew Price |
 | Cara Buono | ... | Judy Dobson |
 | Pete Postlethwaite | ... | Henry Crick (as Peter Postlethwaite) |
| Stewart Richman | ... | Ernest Atkinson |
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95 min
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Australia:M | Argentina:16 | Spain:18 | UK:15 | USA:R
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'Miranda Richardson' was originally intended for the role of Mary. more
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This film is a complex intricate look at sexuality, history, Freud, and superstition all based in the living metaphor of England's fen land, or marshes. It is no coincidence Swift chose to set this incredible story about navigating the labyrinths of jealousy and history- personal and local, using a landscape riddled with secret channels and muddy hidden waters.
The acting is superb, and like Ian McEwan's Atonement, looks unflinchingly at the depths of personal tragedy, and history, and their long lasting effects on us as humans, all in the context of historical events.
The Fenland is an area deeply steeped in history, going back before the Romans.The film touches literally the taboo of early sexual longing ( male and female)and leaves us to look at the costs of opening Pandora's's box.
Swift is a gifted and beautiful writer and I have read this book several times. The film is a credit to the book, which is an unusual statement for films. The film complements the book much in the same way the film of Unbearable Lightness of Being complemented that book.
This is a masterful work.