The Browning Version (1994)
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82% of critics liked it
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65% of users liked it
(987 ratings)
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… More 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. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mike Figgis
- Written By
- Ronald Harwood
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 1, 1994 Wide
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Nell Minow, Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Not as good as the original, but Finney is magnificent.
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Bob Wake, culturevulture.net
The filmmakers lack the confidence to allow us the full measure of Rattigan's uniquely British sensibility.
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Dan Lybarger, Lawrence Journal-World
Finney is terrific as a fussy teacher who picks up a few valuable lessons of his own.
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
High-class film about a middle-age teacher who does painful soul-searching.
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Cast
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Albert Finney
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
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Greta Scacchi
as Laura Crocker-Harris
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Matthew Modine
as Frank Hunter
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Julian Sands
as Tom Gilbert
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Michael Gambon
as Dr. Frobisher
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Maryam d'Abo
as Diana
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Ben Silverstone
as Taplow
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Mark Long
as Foster
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Belinda Low
as Rowena Baxter
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Dinah Stabb
as Jane Frobisher
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Heathcote Williams
as Dr. Lake
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George Harris
as Adakendi Senior
- Susie Figgis
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Oliver Milburn
as Trubshaw
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Jeff Nuttall
as Lord Baxter
- Jim Sturgess
- Joe Beattie
- Mark Bolton
- Tom Havelock
- Walter Micklethwait
- Joseph Beattie
