by Iotis Erlewine
synopsis
Based on the novel by Graham Swift, this drama follows the past and present crises of schoolteacher Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons), who attempts to resolve the problems in his own life and the apathy of his students by relating stories of his troubled childhood in the English Fens (a marshy region in Britain).
characteristics
- Sleeper
- Past
- Murder
- Pregnancy
- Mental-breakdown
- Pregnant
- Student
- Schoolteacher
- Marriage-problems
- Marital-problems
- Childhood
- Haunted By The Past
- Brother
- In A Minor Key
- Knocked-up
