The Browning Version
The Browning Version

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- 72/100 based on 3,499 votes
  • Released: 1994
  • Runtime: 97 mins
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  • Studio: Paramount Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) is an embittered, disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British public school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health and might not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura (Greta Scacchi) is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respe... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Browning Version:

Albert Finney
Greta Scacchi
Matthew Modine
Julian Sands
Michael Gambon
Ben Silverstone

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Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) is an embittered, disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British public school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health and might not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura (Greta Scacchi) is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect.

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Spirituality and Practice - 9/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatHigh-class film about a middle-age teacher who does painful soul-searching.
Independent on Sunday - 8/10 by Quentin CurtisThe Browning Version is not only a very bad film, it desecrates a considerable work of art.
culturevulture.net - 6/10 by Bob WakeThe filmmakers lack the confidence to allow us the full measure of Rattigan's uniquely British sensibility.
User Review - 10/10 by Gordon BAnguish,perfectly filmed and supremely portrayed by Albert Finney.
User Review - 10/10 by Elaine MMagnificent beautiful masterpiece. This film will take you through so many emotions. Acting is perfect and story is heart tugging.
User Review - 10/10 by Alan CWell, this is a great movie, but it's not the 1994 version that's good. It's the older version. That one is a masterpiece.
User Review - 8/10 by SV GAlbert Finney reminds me of a lion forever on the verge of rising and casually swiping our heads off. The man could act rings around anyone currently living before he'd even had his morning coffee.
User Review - 8/10 by Antonio AA great remake. And yes, I know. I'm only renting Albert Finney movies this month.
User Review - 8/10 by Adrian IThis was a film that really spoke to me where I was at the time. I was teaching Sunday school to a class of 7th graders. It was always a struggle to keep them interested in the material, to keep their eyes and ears open, for I believed that what I was teaching was the most important subject imaginable. I was teaching about Catholic faith, and I knew that such a miserable job had been done when I was in Catholic school at their age that I almost never considered it again. So to say that I felt tremendous pressure would be an understatement. The beginning of the film follows a newly appointed language professor on his way to the posh British prep school at which he'll be teaching. After being introduced to some other professors, he visits what will be his class. It's the last day of the school year, and it's a typical group of boys, goofing around whenever they think no one will stop them (been there, done that). It's quite obvious that the new professor has no experience keeping discipline over a class, and the boys take advantage until the stodgy and severe Mr. Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) enters. A mere look from him is enough to get all the boys back in their seats and in proper posture. It becomes clear that Crocker-Harris deals with his students with a ruthless sarcasm and blatant disregard for the boys' understandable emotions. A boy who had laughed politely at Crocker-Harris' joke in Latin, which he could scarcely have understood, is called up in front of the class to be embarrassed publicly. As a "treat", the boys read from Sophocles in the original Greek, but Crocker-Harris takes over when it becomes clear that it's all Greek to them. His passion for the material shines through, for a few moments, before the class period, and the school year, end. The rest of the film centers on Crocker-Harris, who comes to reflect on his ambitions when he began teaching, many years ago, and the sporadic and disappointing results of his career. He seems resigned to the fact that no matter what you do as a teacher, 99% of the time you will fail. At home, his marriage is a quiet failure, which again had started out with such potential. His wife (Greta Scachi), as she visits an American chemistry professor (Matthew Modine) for tea and sex, looks back at the man she married, young and idealistic, and curses the man he has become. One student, Taplo, has grown to like Crocker-Harris, somehow. This is despite the fact that the professor subjects Taplo to extra time studying with him, and stands in the way of Taplo's fervent desire to be transferred to the Science department. As Crocker-Harris will be retiring after this year, he decides to buy his professor a gift: the Browning version of the works of Sophocles. When he presents it to him, and the professor reads the inscription in ancient Greek, which translates to: "God from above looks kindly on a gentle master," he breaks down in tears, for he has been anything but. Now, convinced of the utter failure of his career and marriage, he is presented with a success, which paradoxically makes him feel even worse. He must struggle with his inability, not only to respect, but to be respected. For anyone who has been a teacher or student, this may well bring back memories.
User Review - 8/10 by Rodrigo Gentretenida para la tarde, albert finney tiene momentos espectaculares como su despedida de la escuela...uufff una pelicula con corazon y con verdad que es muy importante

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