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Waterland 1992

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 95 min

genre: mystery

director: Stephen Gyllenhaal

Score: 4 / 10

Waterland is a 1992 British-American mystery drama film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, and starring Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack and Ethan Hawke. It is based on Graham Swift's 1983 novel of the same name. The film moved the contemporary location of the novel from England to Pittsburgh and eliminated many of the extensive historical asides.

Plot

The story centres on an anguished English-born Pittsburgh high school teacher Tom Crick and his life in 1974, going through a reassessment of his life. Crick finds out that his wife, Mary, is starting to lose her sanity and longing for a son they never had. Soon after, worried about Mary's mental health, Crick changes his method for teaching History, and starts narrating his life to his class and interweaving three generations of his family. His narrative is told in flashbacks that tell the story of a teenage Crick and his mentally challenged older brother Dick, who live in The Fens of England with their widowed father during World War II.

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author	Graham Swift
contentLocation	Pittsburgh
director	Stephen Gyllenhaal
editor	Lesley Walker
genre	drama historical mystery
keywords	abduct abducted a child auditorium baby beer bottle counseling psychology counsellor disastrous abortion drown estate estranged wife expect falling in love fen great war gypsy high school teacher history history teacher incest leaving school long manor married medicaster mental health mentally challenged murder nervous breakdown older brother psychiatric hospital river school teacher talk teach teenage romance told in flashback tragic event unsafe abortion widow world war i world war ii young man
musicBy	Carter Burwell
producer	Katy Mcguinness Patrick Cassavetti
productionCompany	British Screen Productions Channel Four Films Fine Line Features Palace Pictures Pandora Cinema
publisher	Fine Line Features