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30 October 1992 (USA) morePlot:
Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting - with his class, with his wife... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Good, but far inferior to the book moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jeremy Irons | ... | Tom Crick | |
| Sinéad Cusack | ... | Mary Crick | |
| Grant Warnock | ... | Young Tom | |
| Lena Headey | ... | Young Mary | |
| Callum Dixon | ... | Freddie Parr | |
| Sean Maguire | ... | Peter (as Sean McGuire) | |
| Ross McCall | ... | Terry | |
| Camilla Hebditch | ... | Shirley | |
| David Morrissey | ... | Dick Crick | |
| John Heard | ... | Lewis Scott | |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal | ... | Maggie Ruth | |
| Ethan Hawke | ... | Matthew Price | |
| Cara Buono | ... | Judy Dobson | |
| Pete Postlethwaite | ... | Henry Crick (as Peter Postlethwaite) | |
| Stewart Richman | ... | Ernest Atkinson |
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As a huge fan of Graham Swift's novels, I was pleasantly surprised to see how well this complex and detailed work was compressed into film form. While I think Jeremy Irons, David Morrissey and Sinead Cusack are all outstanding in this film, I really feel that the transplanting of the frame from England to America diminishes the story. Surely Price's nihilism is not merely a standard adolescent world-weariness, but a form of the punk sensibility contemporary with the book's appearance. Still, the film does a good job of capturing the sense of place in its English scenes, and handles the poignancy of the story effectively. The film is good, but the book is immense.