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Waterland | 1992 | R | - 5.4.5
Jeremy Irons stars as an History teacher, who responds to a question about the meaning of History by launching a meandering airing of his family's secrets, which include a number of closeted skeletons. There's sex and murder.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Bare male bottoms, and teenage girls in modest underwear. A young man is shown in is long-johns and it is obvious that he is aroused. Bare breasts. Two teens are shown making love several times, in various locales: a train, an abandoned hay storage outbuilding.
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VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man is found dead, floating in a river. When he is turned over he is bluish white and bloated. Some pushing and shoving between two young men. A young woman is shown in the early stages of an abortion (the old-fashioned way), and is heard screaming out in fear and pain.
LANGUAGE 5 - The F-word is used several times. Scatological terms are also used several times.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Drinking, "intoxication shows them for what they are: mindless fools." Murder, jealousy, incest, premarital (teen) sex, teenage pregnancy, abortion, kidnapping.
MESSAGE - The very insignificance of a single event, however dreadful it may seem at the time, is where hope dwells.
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We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and older reviews are not as complete & accurate as recent ones; we plan to revisit and correct older reviews as resources and time permits.
Our ratings and reviews are based on the theatrically-released versions of films; on video there are often Unrated, Special, Director's Cut or Extended versions, (usually accurately labelled but sometimes mislabeled) released that contain additional content, which we did not review.
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