The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Jeremy Irons
Tom Crick
Sinéad Cusack
Mary Crick
Grant Warnock
Young Tom
Lena Headey
Young Mary
Callum Dixon
Freddie Parr
Ethan Hawke
Matthew Price
Pete Postlethwaite
Henry Crick
Sean Maguire
Peter
Ross McCall
Terry
David Morrissey
Dick Crick
John Heard
Lewis Scott
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Ruth
Cara Buono
Judy Dobson
Siri Neal
Helen Atkinson
Gareth Thomas
Publican
Susannah Fellows
Rebecca Scott
Paul Haigh
RAF Man
Tony Vogel
Stan Booth
Tina Benko
Baby's Mother
Sophie Baker
Still Photographer
Nico Cummins
Clapper Loader
Prashant Gupta
Simon Richards
Focus Puller
Mike Valentine
Underwater Camera
Stephen Gyllenhaal
Director
Peter Prince
Writer
Carter Burwell
Original Music Composer
Ira Deutchman
Executive Producer
Nik Powell
Stephen Woolley
Deborah Aquila
Casting
Susie Figgis
'Wild Bill' Laczko
Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski
Production Design
Helen Rayner
Art Direction
Lindy Hemming
Costume Design
Linda DeVetta
Makeup Artist
Louise Fisher
Norma Hill
Jenny Lee Wright
Foley Artist
Pauline Griffith
Dialogue Editor
Graham Swift
Novel
Patrick Cassavetti
Producer
Katy McGuinness
Lesley Walker
Editor
Robert Elswit
Director of Photography
David Brown
First Assistant Director