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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Stephen Gyllenhaal
- Writer
- Peter Prince, Graham Swift
- Casting
- Deborah Aquila, Susie Figgis, 'Wild Bill' Laczko
- Editor
- Lesley Walker
- Cinematography
- Robert Elswit
- Production Design
- Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski
- Art Direction
- Helen Rayner
- Composer
- Carter Burwell
- Costume
- Lindy Hemming
- Makeup
- Linda DeVetta, Louise Fisher, Norma Hill
Details
- Studios
- Pandora Cinema, British Screen Productions, Palace Pictures
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Certification
- R
- Release
- August 21, 1992
Themes
based on novel or book1970sfamily historyteachermemoryhigh school teacherhistory teachernorfolkpittsburgh, pennsylvania