Waterland details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | David Morrissey, Sean Maguire, Pete Postlethwaite, Jeremy Irons, Lena Headey, Ethan Hawke, Grant Warnock, Sinead Cusack, Ross McCall, John Hurt, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Callum Dixon |
| Director: | Stephen Gyllenhaal |
| Genre: | Drama - Period |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
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Waterland |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 31 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 31 Jul 2006 |
| Main languages: | English |
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waterland-a true classic
By a customer from Brighton , 30 May 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
From the brilliant novel to excellence on screen. Irons and Hawke share a mild comntempt for each other but bond as the slighty stiff uper lipped teacher lets his guard down to slighty to share his sadness and regrets of the past- a past which reveals many mysteries and tells tales of lost love, teenage pregnancy and family secrets revealed. Brilliant performances from three main leads. A film never to be overlooked, i have searched for ages for this. If you are reading the book-you will revel in the delights of the film.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(15)The Fens Revisited
By Cato (703 reviews) from Lydbury North , 25 Jun 2012In which Jeremy Irons brings Brideshead Revisited to the Fens. He's a good actor, but always of a type,that of the sensitive academic who finds life difficult. In this he's a schoolmaster, in America for some reason, although I suspect the book from which the film derives doesn't help the story, which is at times unbelievably quirky. Good performances all round and great if a little morose landscape.- Was this review helpful to you?
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strong story but a bit clunky
By a customer , 12 Sep 2011I saw this many years ago and loved it. Also big fan of the novel. I was a bit disappointed with my second viewing - it is still a really powerful story but the film felt kinda clunky and contrived.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not the cheeriest of tales
By Noseyjoe (167 reviews) from London , 27 Oct 2009This film was probably Jeremy irons' swansong as a romantic lead (before his Dorian Gray moment came and he started playing rather weaselly characters instead). It's a grim fable in which Irons, a New Hampshire schoolteacher by his forties, begins regaling his English class with salacious tales from his teens, and nearly gets into trouble for doing so. Before long it is clear that his past is haunting him, and he winds up taking some of his young charges on a trip back in time to the bleak East Anglian landscapes where this psychodrama unfolded. The book was a big hit in its day I seem to remember - always a tough act for a filmmaker to follow...- Was this review helpful to you?
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waterland
By a customer from Lewes , 23 Apr 2008I've seen this film in cinema and DVD, and after 5 or more viewings it never fails to wrench my soul. It's a brilliant, tragic, intense, unusual story set in the Fenns and USA, with Sinead Cusack and Jeremy Irons, both at their best. The novel won the Booker Prize. If this doesn't have you weeping, your heart's made of stone.- Was this review helpful to you?
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a moustache, flashbacks, crying, wallpaper
By a customer from wales, cardiff , 24 Aug 2007couldn't make head or tail of it. far too mashed.- Was this review helpful to you?
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