Waterland R
A middle-aged high-school history teacher forced into early retirement uses his family's traumatic history to illustrate lessons for his students.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.40:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 14, 2018
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: Warner Archives
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Ethan Hawke & John Heard | |
Performer: | Pete Postlethwaite, Lena Headey, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Cara Buono & David Morrissey | |
Directed by | Stephen Gyllenhaal | |
Edited by | Lesley Walker | |
Screenplay by | Peter Prince | |
Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
Produced by | Patrick Cassavetti & Katy McGuinness | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Elswit | |
Executive Production by | Ira Deutchman, Nik Powell & Stephen Woolley |
Entertainment Reviews:
Incest, drowning, teenage sex on a train: it's all here, but none of it clings to your mind.
Independent (UK)
The odd thing about Waterland is that despite the extreme evens it depicts -- murder, incest, betrayal, drowning, abortion, baby-snatching, madness, job losses etc. -- it seems rather tame.
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The Spectator
It's a brave endeavour, held together by Robert Elswit's poetic photography, and by Irons' authoritative impression of the crumbling desperation behind the chalk-dusted facade of a pensive history man.
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Time Out
A talented but terminally parched piece of literary cinema.
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Variety
Too often the film is overly impressed with its own devices, and the story unfolds in such a haphazard manner that its emotions are muted.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Rating: 4/5 --
Gyllenhaal refers to Waterland as "a world of the mind." and it is an experience definitely worth exploring.
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Austin Chronicle
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The strange fact about "Waterland" is the way the performances and the dialogue are worthier than the story itself.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Disillusioned history professor Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons), in an age of cynicism and despair, inspires his students to embrace the past and discover the marvels and mysteries of life. For his final lecture, Crick tells the history of the English marshlands known as The Fens. He spins a tale that begins before World War I and encompasses his family history, his childhood with his mentally challenged brother and his romance with the beautiful girl who became his wife, but is now a deeply disturbed woman. In telling his story of incest, abortion, murder, domestic abuse, insanity and kidnapping, Crick gains an understanding of his tragic life as he pierces his students' apathy.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 66,550
- UPC: 888574705480
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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