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Mood:
- CleverSentimentalTouchingTense
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Plot:
- Self DiscoveryCollege LifeDishonestyHopesLove and RomanceMind and SoulYouthCouples more...
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Genres:
- DramaMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- EnglandEuropeCollegeBoarding School
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Talky
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- Based on PlayRemake
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- SeriousRealistic
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The Browning Version, 1994
English
UK
Profile of The Browning Version
The mood of The Browning Version is clever, tense, and sentimental. The plot centers around college life, self discovery, and hopes. It is a drama movie. Stylistically, The Browning Version is a melodrama and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is England. The Browning Version happens in the 1990s. It is a remake and adapted from a play. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a teacher of Greek and Latin at a traditional English prep school, is called the "Hitler of the Lower Sixth" by his students. His rigidity and cruelty are the sad remnants of an extinguished passion for classical literature. But as he is poised to leave the school--forced into retirement by the headmaster and made ridiculous by the infidelities of his wife Laura (Greta Scacchi)--Crocker-Harris finds his love for learning rekindled by the interest and sympathy of a young student named Taplow (Ben Silverstone), who gives him Robert Browning's translation of Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON as a parting gift. Based on a Terence Rattigan play, THE BROWNING VERSION is a character study that finds pathos in British stodginess and makes a subdued plea for the nobility of teaching. Finney is the powerful center of the film, portraying a man whom time and opportunity have passed by. As humiliations are piled upon his character, Finney registers nothing but silent resignation, even as he ratchets up his stoicism to face the next disappointment.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 12 October 1994 |
| Runtime: | 97 min |
Cast and Crew
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
as Laura Crocker-Harris
as Frank Hunter
