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Summary: hope and glory
Review: I like so many avivid lovers of this movie fell in love with it the first time i saw it on showtime back in the eighties when i was just twelve.i never knew the name until i a discussion of movies with some close friends lead me to it. now that i know off i rush to buy this wonderful movie. You know with movie that have so much blood and gore it nice to sit down and watch this movie it take me back to my parents house intently watching this wonderful movie
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Summary: Drench your being with HOPE and GLORY
Review: I watched this film, so sneaky, as it took me through the eyes of a young boy who matures within WWII. I laughed, bit-nails, cried, held-on, and laughed so much more. This is a great movie. Do yourself a favor. See it!
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Summary: A MUST HAVE
Review: It has been on my search to own list for years! Billy to me illustrates as close as I can come to how my own father experienced WWII as an English Colonial at a tender age. It gives a more childlike view, usually comical, through what was an unbelievable start to an already difficult challange - growing up. Just watch out for those gugaleys!
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Summary: One of the most captivating stories of my whole life.
Review: It may not be perfection but it sure is lovable. An unforgetable movie. Made to be seen over and over again.
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Summary: Life During War!
Review: John Boorman's "Hope and Glory" is a nostalgic look at a family's trials and tribulations of living through the London blitz during World Warr II. The film told from the perspective of a young boy shows us both smiles and tears as we see people fall in love, go off to war, lose all their possessions and even those they love.It shows that even though war can cause kaos and the world around us seems to be falling apart, life goes on.People still mow there lawns, go on day trips, attend school and escape daily life at the local cinema.The film does have its serious moments, yet there is a comic undertone that runs through this episodic story.My favorite comic moment is when the father tries to convince his family that the German jam he has brought home from the front isn't poisoned.They all look at him like he's crazy and about to keel over.Truely hilarious!Sabastion Rice-Edwards is excellent as young Billy, who is afraid he's going to miss the war. Sara Miles is great as she plays the emotional role of a mother who is trying to keep her family together during both the good and bad times.This movie really takes you to the British homefront!
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Summary: Oh....Oh....OHHHHH Fudge!!
Review: Mortifying. I can't even put into words how annoyingly bad this film was. I'd rather be forced to drink 10 week old fryolator grease from a seafood restaurant than have to watch this film again. It's the equivilant of having your genitals smashed repeatedly with a toffee hammer.I've had cold sores that I've been happier with than this drivel. Please, life is too precious to waste it on this. I plead with you...it would be better if you gave yourself an enema with a garden hose than view this film. Nuff said...
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Summary: WHAT A WONDERFUL TREASURE
Review: THE SOUNDTRACK IS ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE MOVIE, WHICH WAS A PLEASURE; THE PHOTOGRAPHY, SETTINGS, ACTING WERE SUPERB; BUY IT, YOU'LL WANT TO WATCH IT OVER AND OVER
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Summary: A must see
Review: This comedy is one of my favorites. It is the story of a young boy who lives in England during WWII. But the real fight is between the boy and school and various members of the family. Scenes and phrases from this will stay with you for a long time, "German Jam" for example.
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Summary: "Empire of the Son"
Review: This film came out the same year as the similar, yet superior, "Empire of the Sun." Despite the fact that the latter was a Spielberg opus, "H&G" received more critical acclaim.This isn't "anti-war" as people claim most films of the war genre are. Yet, it is certainly anti-marriage. Everyone in the film married the wrong person. Grace married the wrong man. Mac married the wrong woman. The grandfather complains about his marriage a lot. The grandfather also claims each of his four daughters married the wrong man ("duds," he dismissively calls them). And Molly doesn't even attempt to hide her numerous affairs. It's refreshing, however, in the wake of recent war films (PR, PH, TTRL, and TP) to see an "adult" relationship in a war-era film, that, of course, being the one between Mac and Grace. Everyone else in the film (Clive, Molly, the grandfather, etc.) acts like a child. Even Grace calls her husband "a baby." I think Grace is the film's true protagonist. Her story is the tale of lost love (in her case, the love she and Mac had). The war itself is merely a dramatic background against which all these messages play out. The film is certainly one of the top English films available and makes one wonder why the English, and, more specifically, Boorman himself, can't produce good films more often.
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Summary: Endearing Endurance
Review: This film focuses on an English family which struggles to cope with the Blitz during World War Two. The devastation of attacks on London is brilliantly juxtaposed with the idyllic countryside to which Grace Rohan (Sarah Miles) relocates with her children after her husband Clive (David Hayman) goes off to war. Much of the story is based on director John Boorman's own childhood experiences at a time when there seemed so little reason for hope. "Glory" certainly describes the eventual Allied victory but also the courage of the English people meanwhile and certainly the affirmation of shared values which bound so many families together amidst fear, separation, death, and destruction. Much of the film's focus is on Grace's father (Ian Bannen), a patriarch to be sure and (at times) something of an eccentric, but a loving and decent man nonetheless, struggling to cope with all manner of domestic crises while providing a safe haven for daughters Grace, Faith, Hope, and Charity. He and grandson Billy (Sebastian Rice Edwards) forge a special bond in response to the pastoral "harem" in which they find themselves. This is a charming film but also one which also offers some sobering insights into how disruptive wartime conditions can be, especially to a sensible and sensitive boy such as Billy. His perspective is presumably Boorman's (re-established years later) and done so with style and grace.
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