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About
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.
Theatrical
Oct 30, 1992
Box Office
$1.1M
Budget
$10.0M
Return
0.1x
DVD / Blu-ray
May 9, 2006
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
Pandora Cinema, British Screen Productions, Palace Pictures, Film4 Productions
Cast
Full credits →J
Jeremy Irons
Tom Crick
S
Sinéad Cusack
Mary Crick
G
Grant Warnock
Young Tom
L
Lena Headey
Young Mary
C
Callum Dixon
Freddie Parr
E
Ethan Hawke
Matthew Price
P
Pete Postlethwaite
Henry Crick
S
Sean Maguire
Peter
R
Ross McCall
Terry
D
David Morrissey
Dick Crick
J
John Heard
Lewis Scott
M
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Ruth
C
Cara Buono
Judy Dobson
S
Siri Neal
Helen Atkinson
G
Gareth Thomas
Publican
S
Susannah Fellows
Rebecca Scott
P
Paul Haigh
RAF Man
T
Tony Vogel
Stan Booth
T
Tina Benko
Baby's Mother
J
Jana Shelden
Guest at Dinner Party
