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- Commentary by director Stephen Gyllenhaal
- Interview with composer Carter Burwell
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"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.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By Jens Haetty
Format:VHS Tape
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. The angle from which the movie develops the plot (a teacher, exiled in the US if you will, is challenged from all sides to defend the value of history) is compelling since it unravels most beautifully and emotionally the teacher's own involvement with it. I do not want to give away what the story twists are, go into the film as I did. But the way the movie uses two different time lines to tell the whole story, and interweaves them artfully, is brillant. Jeremy Irons (I actually did not know him at the time, believe it or not) is most fitting as the main character. Ethan Hawke, well I guess they had to pick somebode to play a rebellious pupil, is not bad, but his performance does not contol the movie. Sinead Cusack, on the other hand, plays so convincingly the part of the teacher's wife, still hunted by the common past, that this role is sort of stuck to her in my view.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
i wonder why this movie hasn't had the appreciation i think it deserves. it is beautifully shot and has a devastating story of guilt, love, redemption and a couple other underlying themes that i'm sure i forgot. oh my god, and i'm telling you the ending will send your eyes to niagra falls. totally satisfies my depressed movie jones. love this!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By Natasha Conn
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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 moving. His real life wife Sinead Cusack plays his spouse, ravaged by some dark secret. Though she overdoes the wailing a bit, only Dick Cheney could be unmoved by the closing scenes. See it if only for Irons' gulping smoke rings scene in the bar with Ethan Hawke - the great tortured actor of our era, in one of his best.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
irons, film, brilliant, unforgettable
How bad, how lost a history teacher is Tom Crick (Irons)? So bad that the only time he has his class's attention is when he's teaching the French Revolution -- because of... Read more
Published on December 21, 2010 by L. Monstuart
5.0 out of 5 stars
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... Read more
Published on August 11, 2007 by One More Option
5.0 out of 5 stars
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. Read more
Published on November 24, 2006 by thecableguy
5.0 out of 5 stars
not a jeremy irons fan but ...
I loved this film, it is by far one of my all time favorites. The way the director moves from present to past weaving out a tale a teacher tells his students about his past. Read more
Published on January 30, 2006 by Tony Brest
5.0 out of 5 stars
AMAZING
dude, this movie is off da hook. absolutely wikid. i would recommened it to any1, even jah himself!
Published on November 5, 2004
1.0 out of 5 stars
Depressing and disappointing
What's the point of studying history?, a high school student here asks. A wise man once said if we forget the mistakes of the past we are doomed to repeat them. Read more
Published on January 9, 2001 by Dirk Ravenbridge
3.0 out of 5 stars
Better than I Thought
As one who considers the novel one of the great books of the Twentieth Century, I was leery of and initially disappointed by the film. Read more
Published on March 6, 2000 by Del I. Janik
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Darkly Beautiful Movie
I believe this underrated movie is one of the best of this decade. Irons could not be any better--not that I've ever seen him in a bad performance. Read more
Published on October 23, 1999 by Jon B. Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars
Even better than I remembered.
I saw the film before I read the book, which I loved, along with every other book by Graham Swift. My initial impression of the film, seen in the cinema, was good enough to want to... Read more
Published on August 23, 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars
EXCELENT
WATERLAND IS A MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN, EVERY TIME I SEE IT I WALK AWAY WITH THE SAME FEELINGS. IT COMPLETELY HOLDS MY ATTN WITH EVERY SLIGHT DETAIL. Read more
Published on April 19, 1999
