Russell Crowe stars as the mathematical genius John Forbes Nash Jr, a man who made a great discovery early in his life before descending into a notorious life of depravity and self discovery.
New Head Teacher Rachel Mason makes her first appearance at Waterloo Road when Jack Rimmer's determination to improve exam results leads him into taking risks to secure the school's future. Teacher Tom Clarkson is struggling to maintain a normal life playing single dad to Chlo and Mika but both girls face challenges of their own. Other new staff includes a Deputy Head who looks set to rock the boat in the classroom and bedroom a woman with a mission in mind and a new drama teacher Matt Walker who plans to grab headlines with the school's first musical 'Park Side Story'. But corruption is rife in the tendering process to build a new training centre at the school with Rachel Mason coming under pressure from a blackmailing builder to secure his interest in the bid. What secret is she trying to hide - and how much will it cost the school? The pupils create as many challenges for others as they face themselves when a group of eco-Warriors decide to make the school greener at any cost a young student faces deportation leading to an immigration crisis and one young girl falls victim to a predatory supply teacher. Yes it's a new term at Waterloo Road and there's so much to learn - for the teachers as well as the pupils.
Starring Pam Ferris and Sarah Lancashire this hugely successful prime-time drama attracted more than ten million viewers in the UK garnering nominations for four National Television Awards (for Most Popular Actress and Most Popular Drama).
In a failing inner-city comprehensive every day is a battle for acting headteacher Jack Rimmer and his disillusioned staff. Can the arrival of hard-nosed public school idealist Mr Treneman really turn things around? Or would these troubled teens benefit more from the sympathetic approach of his colleague and sparring partner Kim Campbell? The lives and loves of the teachers parents and pupils become inextricably intertwined in this gritty engaging and ultimately uplifting drama in which those who can teach and those who can't have a lot to learn...
Waterloo Road: Series 3 - Autumn Term
A Beautiful Mind is an award-winning movie if ever there was one. This biopic of mathematician John Forbes Nash is two parts Shine to one part Good Will Hunting. Scripted by Akiva Goldsman (Lost in Space) and directed by Ron Howard (The Grinch)--both trying to get sincere and serious after previous movies--it showcases a big, compelling performance from Russell Crowe as a genius whose eccentricities turn out to be down to a genuine mental illness. Though his early work as a student offered a breakthrough that eventually won him the 1994 Nobel Prize, Nash goes off the deep end in later life. The film works better in the early paranoid stretches--which include a wonderful 1950s spy movie parody as Nash is sucked into an imagined world of fighting commie atom spies--than it does with the inspirational ending, where Nashs handicaps are overcome so he can triumph at the end. Crowe's genuinely fine work still seems a bit Shine/Rain Man/Forrest Gump-ish in mannerism, yet experience shows this can be a powerful career move. Crowe gains sterling support from Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany and Christopher Plummer--some playing a mere character in Nashs world. --Kim Newman
There’s a new Head Teacher at Waterloo Road. Karen Fisher comes with a renegade daughter and a troubled son; and is soon joined by her husband as a supply teacher. It’s a family affair, except that this family is an explosion waiting to happen. New challenges to hit the school system include more than one pupil who comes out as gay, bullying, bulimia, sex education and the morning after pill, a bright student who is forced to live alone in a hostel and a boy, whose father is a gangster, taking the law into his own hands. Grantly Budgen has to deal, not only with his own weaknesses but the decline of his beloved wife from Alzheimers. And an old friend is back as a former student. Janeece returns to the school as school secretary, but she doesn’t come back alone. Francesca Montoya, the Spanish Teacher, finds herself heavily in demand from an eager Tom Clarkson, but she’s already crossed a very dangerous barrier and started an affair with a pupil that could send her to prison if they aren’t very careful. In one of the tensest, most exciting Waterloo Road series yet seen, fast-moving events lead to dangerous, illegal and possibly even deadly conclusions. Special Features: Outtakes School Photos Social Networking Snaps Subtitles
Rival pupils rival teachers - if someone thought opposites attract they're about to find out otherwise - I predict a riot! It's a whole new dawn for Waterloo Road when the school is joined together with the John Foster School. Its pupils are a little posher a little prouder and a lot more disciplined - or that's how it seems on the surface. It's not long before a culture-clash between the schools becomes a massed turf war and that's only the beginning of the challenges facing Rachel Mason as Head Teacher. She's also up against a ruthless new Executive Head Max Tyler who wants to bring his iron rule to the pupils of Waterloo Road - and won't let anyone stand in his way. Max brings with him a bullying attitude along with a new teacher and ex-lover Helen Hopewell. Max's marriage and severed relationship with Helen doesn't prevent him seducing teacher Kim Campbell into supporting him a policy of divide and conquer which soon leaves the school at breaking point. Elsewhere Steph finds herself under a new department head the openly lesbian Jo Lipsett and Tom Clarkson takes on his role of department head responsible for Grantley Budgen and Max Tyler's fragile prot''g'' Helen Hopewell. Pupils new and old face problems of their own as they have to live with the consequences of their actions - and others - from bullying through drink offences schizophrenia and even murder. It's more than just a new term for Waterloo Road it's a new beginning. And with every new beginning comes new challenges - but the bigger they are the harder they fall.
It’s the most shocking term yet in the history of Waterloo Road a term that will change some lives – and end others – as staff and students grapple with the challenges that life puts before them. For Head Teacher Michael it will see him up against Lorraine Donnegan the money behind the school as she attempts to implement 30% cuts a hammer blow to his vision of education for all. Trouble rears its most ugly head in the form of Steve-O Dynasty Barry’s ex-boyfriend fresh out of prison and ready to get his hooks into anyone he can including Dynasty. But she has eyes for Kevin leading to the sexiest chess game ever and a whole lot of trouble for Kevin including Dynasty’s hot-headed mother and a TV-show that fi nds him face to face with an unwelcome past. Grantly Budgen has fallen into a coma and his wife Maggie is putting all her hope in Tom Clarkson; soft-spoken Audrey fi nds herself engaged to a Malawian immigrant; one new teacher has a hidden agenda; another brings a sharp tongue to teaching mandarin. As the term draws to a close so will many of the problems facing the school its teachers and pupils. But the completely unexpected is always just around the corner at Waterloo Road.
Waterloo Road: Series 5 - Spring Term (3 Discs)
It's a year of change at Waterloo Road as the school finds itself with a new Head Teacher and on the cusp of even greater change. Meanwhile the first term finds Head Teacher Karen Fisher still trying to stay in control, while finding herself enamoured of the new Site Manager Rob Scotcher. An abandoned baby, new teaching staff, gender issues, bullying, cancer, backstabbing and more brings in a Director of Education with an ulterior motive as he gathers information to threaten the school with closure. But the spring term brings a new Head Teacher, Michael Byrne, and new staff including married couple Jeremy 'Jezz' Diamond, and his wife Sian, as well as an old companion of Michael's, the conceivably unbalanced Linda Radleigh. New students include Phoenix and Harly Taylor, as well as twins Shona and Rhona Mansfield, Tariq and his sister Trudi, while stepping up as best mates are the unlikely pairing of Emily James and Jodi 'Scout' Allen. As the tension builds, Michael is taken out by a hit and run driver, and the summer term finds him recuperating while the school faces a new challenge in the form of gang culture. On the home front, Grantly loses his wife to Alzheimer's; Janeece meets the man of her dreams in an all-too whirlwind romance; and even young Scout finds herself caught up in a love affair that may be less than it seems. Prom night is coming, Kyle is on the loose with a crossbow, the school may be about to close, what will the future hold? Whatever happens, Waterloo Road will live on - although its future may lie further afield. Special Features: Social Networking Snaps Subtitles
There are new kids in town when the Barry family arrives at Waterloo Road led by their hard as nails matriarch Carol. There's Dynasty dressed to kill and capable of it; Kacey a girl with the kick of a pro-footballer and Barry Barry (so bad they named him twice) a smiling charmer who's greatest ability is to spell trouble for Waterloo Road. It promises to be a hard year all round as Head Teacher Michael may face trial for the assisted death of his father; Chalky is set to become a foster parent to the doubting Kevin; Christine struggles to remain sober while keeping Imogen and Connor apart; and Sian is trying to keep it all together while about to face a challenge all of her own. For the most struggling kids there's help in sight with a new Pupil Referral Unit for vulnerable underachievers like Phoenix Rhiannon and Jodie. Nikki Boston is running the unit with a chip on her shoulder and a reason to crush Jodie's spirit - but it could be the wrong girl to pick on for the wrong reason. Throw in a couple of young lottery winners a much-loved teacher with a new found weakness and wedding bells at the last minute for an on-again/off-again couple and it all adds up to one of the most exciting terms yet for the new-look Waterloo Road. Special features: Picture Gallery Subtitles
Inspired by a true story All Roads Lead Home is an award-winning drama for the entire family that will make you laugh and cry. Bell (Vivien Cardone) an animal loving 12 year old becomes sullen and withdrawn after her mother's death in a car accident. Rebelling against her father (Jason London) she is sent to live at the horse ranch of her gruff maternal grandfather (Peter Coyote). With the help of the animals Belle's work on the farm transforms the entire family. Life and death take on new meaning as the family makes some tough choices involving compassion trust and letting go of the past in order to find hope in the future. Animal lovers the world over will adore this film.
There are mixed messages all over Waterloo Road, and you don’t have to read between the lines to find them. Recently installed Head Teacher Karen Fisher has both her her daughters, Bex and Jess, back with her now, along with her son Harry; but Bex comes with some dangerous baggage in the form of a demanding ex-boyfriend, Hodge, who’ll stop at nothing to get her back, including seducing Jess. Meanwhile Grantly has fallen into a rut with his wife in a care home and needs some care himself. Ruby takes him on, but confused signals leads Grantly to feel that there may be more to her intentions. Francesca Montoya, the Spanish Teacher, finds herself heavily in demand from an eager Tom Clarkson, but she’s already crossed a very dangerous barrier and started an affair with a pupil that could send her to prison if they aren’t very careful. While Karen Fisher struggles to maintain the separation of boys and girls into different teaching groups, she must juggle the politics of a new head of pastoral care, student homosexuality, angry parents and children who are mother’s themselves. And when someone close to her hacks into her e-mail to send aggressive messages to her fellow teachers, it could lead to her downfall. In one of the tensest, most exciting terms at Waterloo Road yet seen, these mixed messages and more lead to dangerous, illegal and possibly even deadly conclusions.
It's a whole new world for Waterloo Road as many of the teachers and some of the pupils move to a new academy school in Greenock, Scotland, sponsored by successful businesswoman Lorraine Donnegan. Grantly and Maggie, soon to be married, are house parents to the kids who have come up from the old school, while Head Teacher Michael Byrne, Sian, Tom, Janeece and Chalky immerse themselves in the new school, pupils both new and old and all the challenges they bring with them. New teachers include the straitlaced Audrey McFall, and Christine Mulgrew, a semifunctioning alcoholic who wreaks havoc in the lives of all around her. New pupils include Christine's son and primary buffer Conor, who is constantly saved from veering off-track by new girl Imogen. However, even she is fated to fall victim to the dysfunctional Mulgrew mother/son relationship. With Head Teacher Michael having to face the ghosts of his past, young Scout suffering relentless bullying from new girl Rhiannon, and Tariq facing an uncertain future both physically and emotionally, a new look Waterloo Road gets off to a fiery start, building to a fiery and explosive finish. Special Features: Behind the Scenes Feature In the Lab with Jaye and Jason In the Gym with Kaya and Kirstie Home from Home with Grantly Budgen Subtitles
A new Head Teacher, Michael Byrne, has arrived at Waterloo Road having survived a brutal stabbing incident, possibly from a former pupil. But that’s behind him now as he starts a new assignment with old friends and new. Greeting him are Waterloo Road’s hardcore staff, Tom, Grantly and Chalky. Joining them, invited back to teach music and drama is old friend Matt Wilding. New faces include married couple Jeremy ‘Jezz’ Diamond, football star turned PE teacher, and Sian Diamond, as well as an old companion of Michael’s, Linda Radleigh. New students include Phoenix and Harly Taylor, as well as twins Shona and Rhona Mansfield, Tariq and his sister Trudi, while stepping up in the ranks are the unlikely pairing of Emily James and Jodi ‘Scout’ Allen. All of which is a recipe for some unpredictable mayhem in the life of Waterloo Road. Head Teacher Michael is constantly at risk from his young attacker, and an unfinished relationship with Jezz’s wife Sian, not to mention a one-night stand that finds him open to much greater risk. Finn is attracted to young muslim Trudi – a partnership her brother Tariq cannot accept, and with Vicki and Ronan’s rocky relationship finally on the rocks and old boys becoming new threats… Parent evenings, orchestras, student prize-givings and a live radio broadcast from the heart of the school. It feels like there’s a ticking time-bomb at every turn, and the fuse is lit day one. Welcome to Waterloo Road, and fasten your seatbelts for the ride of a lifetime. Special Features: Social Networking Snaps School Photos Subtitles
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