The Browning Version (1994)
Directed by Mike Figgis
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Psychological Drama |
Release Date - Jun 8, 1994 (USA - Unknown), Oct 12, 1994 (USA) |
Run Time - 97 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Don Kaye
Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twenty years, Crocker-Harris is being put out to pasture in a less stressful job teaching English to foreigners. Meanwhile, his home life is also falling apart: his wife (Greta Scacchi) is having an affair with the American chemistry teacher (Matthew Modine), who nevertheless admires Crocker-Harris for his dignity and decency. Through it all, Crocker-Harris hides his pain behind his stiff British reserve.
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extramarital-affair, language-instruction, retirement, schoolteacher, aging, book