The Browning Version

1994 Drama

Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twenty years, Crocker-Harris is being put out to pasture in a less stressful job teaching English to foreigners. Meanwhile, his home life is also falling apart: his wife (Greta Scacchi) is having an affair with the American chemistry teacher (Matthew Modine), who nevertheless admires Crocker-Harris for his dignity and decency. Through it all, Crocker-Harris hides his pain behind his stiff British reserve.

Director: Mike Figgis

Starring: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi,Matthew Modine, Julian Sands, Michael Gambon

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Awards

  • Best Screenplay - Adapted

    BAFTA Awards (1995)

     
  • Best Actor

    Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (1994)

  • Jean-François Robin

    Camerimage (1994)

     
  • Mike Figgis

    Cannes Film Festival (1994)