23 May 2006
Desperation
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Waterland
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.
Top Billed Cast
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
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