The Browning version / Paramount Pictures presents a Percy Main Production ; a film by Mike Figgis ; screenplay by Ronald Harwood ; produced by Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk ; directed by Mike Figgis.
Title from disc surface. Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine. Videodisc release of the 1994 motion picture. Based on the play by Terence Rattigan.
Summary:
Story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. The brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom and at home. One student's act of kindness gives the proud academic the inspiration and courage to build his new life.
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