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
as Tom Crick
Sinéad Cusack
as Mary Crick
Grant Warnock
as Young Tom
Lena Headey
as Young Mary
Callum Dixon
as Freddie Parr
Ethan Hawke
as Matthew Price
Pete Postlethwaite
as Henry Crick
Sean Maguire
as Peter
Ross McCall
as Terry
David Morrissey
as Dick Crick
John Heard
as Lewis Scott
Maggie Gyllenhaal
as Maggie Ruth
