Waterland

Never heard much about this movie, but it was playing on cable tonight. I am so glad I got a chance to see. This is the kind of movie that can impact your life. It sure did mine. Very unique and... Full review

Life is nothing more than a story. Waterland dramatically and beautifully displays the sometimes grotesque world in which we live. It does in the end, however, leave us with a sense of contentment and hope.... Full review

If Jeremy Irons is in it you know it's gonna be good. Just go see Lolita. Anyways, history comes alive in this complex but not overly twisted plot (ie Once Upon a Time in America). Great settings and costumes, acting and... Full review

fantastic but depressing, but ull defginitely feel it. don't watch under liquor or nethin:0 acting was very real,. u feel it again which is what makes agreat movie.... Full review

I first watched this movie when I was on my first year of high school then I thought what a great story! then on when it aired again on cinemax hey that guy looks like Jeremy Irons!, i always thought he... Full review

This film is one of the most overlooked movies I've seen. This one ranks in my top 20 movies of all time. It is highly unique, very interesting and very realistically dramatic. The story is not afraid of real life and... Full review

The film is utterly seductive when Warnock and dazzling newcomer Headey, who look remarkably like young versions of Irons and Cusack (his real-life wife), are coming of age so lustily in the empty wonder of the Fens. "Waterland" retains the languorous rhythms but little else of Graham Swift's gorgeously written novel, a soulful tale of a middle-aged history professor drifting away on a tide of childhood memories. ... Full Review

"Waterland" makes a valiant attempt to create a coherent movie from a highly interior, meandering novel. When bratty student Ethan Hawke challenges Irons to justify the existence of his subject, Irons's past comes to bear. ... Full Review

The strange fact about " Waterland " is the way the performances and the dialogue are worthier than the story itself. Jeremy Irons is somehow able to hold the whole construction together; his pain and his entrapment in the past are completely convincing. ... Full Review

Waterland is a deceptively simple tale, well told Waterland deals frankly with topics that charge this otherwise winsome narrative with bracing jolts of electricity as played by Lena Headey in her film debut, the teenaged Mary is sexually precocious and well aware of her effect on men. ... Full Review