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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381131123
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 09, 2006
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 46661
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 1992
Editorial Review:
Description:
'Listen and I'll tell you a story of long kept secrets, sexual scandal, and murder... It's the story of my life.' Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion King) delivers a brilliant performance in this powerful and provocative story as history teacher Tom Crick, who inspires his students to embrace the past and discover the marvels and mysteries of life. Through a series of extraordinary stories, he takes them on an unforgettable journey into the past that changes their lives forever. However, one student (Ethan Hawke, Training Day, Dead Poets Society) proves to be more of a challenge, leading to revelations in which the past's haunting grip on the teacher's life threatens to consume all around him.
Featuring an incredible supporting cast including Sinead Cusack (V for Vendetta), Lena Headey (Possession), David Morrissey (Girl with a Pearl Earring), John Heard (Cutter's Way), Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspects), Cara Buono (Gladiator), Ross McCall (Band of Brothers), and Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary).
SPECIAL FEATURES:New Digital Widescreen Transfer, New Audio Commentary with Director Stephen Gyllenhaal, New Interview with Composer Carter Burwell and Theatrical Trailer.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Often the most worthwhile histories are the histories not discussed
This is an incredible movie from director Stephen Gyllenhaal, father of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie is viewable and enjoyble on multiple layers and from multiple contexts. Some of us don't understand language, and some of us are not drawn to learn to understand language, until we are attracted to someone who is on the other side of a river's shore, someone beckoning us to speak. And when we can't find the words, or when we don't know the words, we instinctively fall underwater toward ... Read More
Rating: - An underrated action gem
Al Gore may have warned us about global warming in "An Inconvenient Truth," but Kevin Costner and co. actually showed us our disturbing future ten years ago. The polar ice caps have melted, flooding the entire earth. Costner plays The Mariner, one of the surviving humans who has adapted by growing gills and learning to drink his own body fluids.
At the start of the film, The Mariner stops at an island made from junk to try and sell a tomato plant. The inhabitants of the island notice ... Read More
Rating:  - Quiet Perfection From Jeremy Irons
I found this movie on IFC late last night and remembered the lasting effects it had on me when it first came out. Irons plays a Pittsburgh history teacher who escapes his crumbling marriage by weaving tales of his family history into his school lessons, he and the students literally walking into WWI veteran hospitals and his childhood home of the English Fens. Irons brings a fragile power to the professor knowing his day his done, his final speech to the school, accompanied by the somber score, incredibly ... Read More
Rating: - AMAZING
dude, this movie is off da hook. absolutely wikid. i would recommened it to any1, even jah himself!
Rating: - A story well told, a novel well adapted...
It is one of those rare moments in life, when you go to a movie theatre, and just purchase a ticket for the next-best movie, not knowing (or caring) what it is about. In one particular case, this was "Waterland", and the money felt well-spent. The original novel the film is based on is set in England. Incomprehensible as it may seem to some to change the setting to a place in the USA for those parts that describe the adult life of that frustrated and unhappy history teacher, it gives the story added depth. ... Read More
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