Waterland
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Waterland

6.3 / 10 1992 1h 35mR English
DramaMystery

Storyline

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.

Cast & Crew

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Tom Crick

Lead
Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Cusack

Mary Crick

GW

Grant Warnock

Young Tom

Lena Headey

Lena Headey

Young Mary

Callum Dixon

Callum Dixon

Freddie Parr

Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke

Matthew Price

Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

Henry Crick

Sean Maguire

Sean Maguire

Peter

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Stephen Gyllenhaal's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Waterland is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker