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Release Date
• USA: Oct 12, 1994
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 14, 2003
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country UK
Studio Paramount
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• The Browning Version
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Genre: Drama, School / Campus, Infidelity, Psychodrama
Tagline: He's out of touch with a changing world, a faithless wife and a thankless career. But one small act of kindness may restore his faith.
Plot: 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.
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