Waterland Movie Review 1992

Teacher Tom Crick (Irons) believes that history is a collection of stories and, when challenged by student Matthew (Hawke), he tries to interest them by relating some of his own background, growing up in the marshlands of the Fens. In flashbacks to 1974 we discover that Tom's retarded brother Dick (Morrissey) is violently jealous of the teenaged Tom and his sweetheart Mary. In the present, Mary (Cusack) is now a psychologically damaged woman who has kidnapped a baby because an abortion left her sterile. It must have made sense in Graham Swift's novel but it certainly doesn't here.

Distribution

Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, Phone: (818)407-9100, Email: inquiries@image-entertainment.com, URL: http://www.image-entertainment.com

Available on DVD
Running time 95 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sex & Sexuality, Great Britain

Screenplay

Peter Prince

Cast

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

Cinematography

Robert Elswit

Director

Stephen Gyllenhaal

Music

Carter Burwell