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Waterland

United Kingdom

1992

95 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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DIR Stephen Gyllenhaal

EXEC Ira Deutchman, Nik Powell, Stephen Woolley

PROD Patrick Cassavetti, Katy McGuinness

SCR Peter Prince

DP Robert Elswit

CAST Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Lena Headey, John Heard, Ethan Hawke, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Pete Postlethwaite

ED Lesley Walker

PROD DES Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski

MUSIC Carter Burwell

Stockholm (American Independents), Berlinale (Panorama)

Synopsis

Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting – with his class, with his wife. He ventures into telling his class stories about his young adulthood in the Fens district in England. The emotional wounds from his younger life wash over him in present day, affecting his work and his relationships with his students and his wife. —IMDb

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Stephen Gyllenhaal

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (born October 4, 1949) is an American film director and poet.

Personal life

Gyllenhaal was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Virginia Lowrie (née Childs) and Hugh Anders Gyllenhaal. He is of Swedish and English descent; through his father, he is a member of the Gyllenhaal family, and a descendant of the cavalry officer Nils Gunnesson Haal, who was ennobled in 1652 when Queen Christina of Sweden conferred upon him the crest and family name, “Gyllenhaal.”Stephen grew up in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia in a close-knit Swedenborgian family and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1972, with a degree in English. His mentor at Trinity was the poet Hugh Ogden.

He was married to screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal for 32 years until their divorce was finalized in 2009. From that marriage, he is the father of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and actor Jake Gyllenhaal. He is also the brother of Anders Gyllenhaal… read more

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