Waterland (1992)

Directors

Stephen Gyllenhaal

Cast

Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Ethan Hawke, John Heard, Grant Warnock, Lena Headey, Pete Postlethwaite, Cara Buono, David Morrissey, Maggie Gyllenhaal

The story

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.

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