Waterland (1992) on Netflix
In 1974, Tom Crick, a history teacher in Pittsburgh, has trouble connecting with his class and his wife, Mary. He begins telling his students about his youth in the Fens of England.
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Plot summary
A history teacher at a Pittsburgh high school in 1974, Tom Crick has trouble connecting with his class, and at home Mary, his wife, is beginning to lose her sanity and longs for the son the couple never had. Worried about her, Crick changes how he teaches and starts narrating his own life to his students, weaving in three generations of his family. The lessons return him to the Fens of England during the war, to his widowed father Henry and his older brother Dick. Crick's mother had been a nurse in a manor converted into a psychiatric hospital, where she met Henry. One of his students, Matthew Price, is anxious about the future.
Cast
- Grant Warnockas Young Tom
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Waterland (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Graham Swift, the author of the novel Waterland, was unhappy with the film adaptation and called the experience "the movie business at its crassest".
- Waterland was among the first two co-productions made by Fine Line Features, which is a subsidiary of New Line Cinema.
- The Victorian mansion at Doddington Place Gardens near Faversham stood in for the ancestral home of Jeremy Irons's character Tom Crick.
