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Film · 0 connectionsWaterland (1992)
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.
Directed byStephen Gyllenhaal
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