Hope and Glory PG-13
The epic story of a world at war. And a boy at play.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 24, 2018
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor & Sammi Davis | |
Performer: | Susan Wooldridge & Ian Bannen | |
Directed by | John Boorman | |
Edited by | Ian Crafford | |
Screenwriting by | John Boorman | |
Produced by | John Boorman | |
Director of Photography: | Philippe Rousselot |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Charming.
New Times
Rating: 4/5 --
A wonderful and touching story about life during wartime.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
The antics of the colorful characters and its fast-paced story line give Hope and Glory all the spontaneity of a child at play.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 7/10 --
The precision of the characters and the performances that John Boorman draws out of his actors make this a pleasure even when when it's a bit pokey and aimless.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 4/5 --
Nostalgic look at London during WWII has sex, mature themes.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 5/5 --
A classic chronicle of civilian life during wartime
Lawrence Journal-World
Rating: 3/4 --
Hope and Glory is an enormous success right now in England, where every frame must have its special memories for British audiences. Through American eyes, it is a more universal film, not so much about war as about memory.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Based upon director John Boorman's experiences as a young boy during World War II, HOPE AND GLORY stars Sebastian Rice-Edwards as Bill Rowen. Seen mostly from the nine-year-old boy's perspective, the film is uniquely astute in exploring the exhilarating effect that the bombing of his London suburb and the war's general tumult has on a young boy, at least temporarily. After bombing raids, Bill and his mates scavenge through the rubble of destroyed buildings, carrying off still-smoking shrapnel as booty. When the boy's school is leveled by the bombing, putting the local kids on permanent vacation, the Luftwaffe pilot is hero for a day. For Bill's harried mother, Grace (Sarah Miles), the war is less amusing. Not only is her husband away fighting, but the war's disorder has made her children more difficult to control, especially her teenage daughter, Sue (Geraldine Muir), whose burgeoning sexuality makes Grace nervous about arriving Canadian troops. Then one day, while the Rowens are out, their house is demolished by a bomb, and Bill begins to see the war a little differently. Boorman's superb re-creation of the London blitz is likely the best account of that experience on film. Through the accretion of a myriad of brilliantly observed details, he immerses the viewer in the reality of wartime London yet gives due weight to the subjective nature of that experience for each of the family members in a film that's flawlessly executed by all hands.
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- Sales Rank: 57,577
- UPC: 887090140713
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