Hope And Glory (DVD)

Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1987 / Suitable for 15 years and over / Director: John Boorman / Actors: Sarah ... more

Hope And Glory (DVD) ... Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis ... / DVD released 2005-09-05 at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL

Newest Review: ... a barrage balloon gets loose and floats down the street causing mayhem, or the wonderful reaction of the locals to having a ... more

... real-live German pilot parachute among them. There's a nightmarish evacuee scene in which children are all-but dragged away from their parents and put on trains. A scene of a class full of kids in gasmasks reciting their nine times table is striking. But the mundane details are just as memorable - the half amused, half embarrassed reactions to the king's Christmas speech, for instance, or Bill's horror at having to draw lines up the backs of his sister's legs so she'll look like she's got stockings on. There's no heroi...more

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Hope And Glory [DVD] [1987]
Release Date: 2005 - 09 - 05, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,

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Hope And Glory (DVD): "Thank you, Hitler!" (931 words)
by - written on 19/02/09 (Very useful, 242 readings)
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The DVD of this can be bought from amazon for about £5, but it doesn't have any extras. This is a great film about life on the home front in the Second World War, directed by John Boorman and released in 1987. I'd guess it's autobiographical (Boorman also wrote the script) as it deals with the experiences of one London family as seen through the eyes of the nine-year-old son, Bill. There's not much plot. The war starts and the slightly naïve father enlists immediately, leaving his wife to look after three children (teenage girl, young boy, younger girl). They experience the Blitz and the teenage sister falls in love with a Canadian soldier, but the ... Read the complete review

The blitz spirit. (185 words)
by - written on 08/02/09 (Useful, 23 readings)
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Now 20 years old, this nostalgic but unflinching portrait of life during the blitz has great power and is a visual feast. I saw this film years ago and have just rewatched it and it is a gently gripping portrait of period family life. Made in 1987, the film follows the daily life of the Rohan family from the initial announcement of the war. Life goes on, the father enlists, the daughter falls for a Canadian airman, the mother struggles to keep her family safe, fed and housed amidst falling bombs. Meanwhile, the world becomes an adventure playground for their son as he scours the bombsites of surburban London with a motley crew of urchins looking for ... Read the complete review

Hope And Glory (DVD): Stolen Days (1027 words)
by - written on 05/02/09 (Very useful, 300 readings)
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Hope and Glory is a 1987 film written and directed by John Boorman of Deliverance and Excalibur fame. The film draws on Boorman's own childhood memories of World War 2 and is (for the most part) set in surburban London during the height of the blitz. The film revolves around the ordinary Rohan family. When Clive Rohan (David Hayman) goes off to war, his wife Grace (Sarah Miles) is left to cope on the home front with their three children, teenager Dawn (Sammi Davis) and young Bill (Sebastian Rice-Edwards) and Sue (Geraldine Muir). We see much of the film through the innocent eyes of Bill for whom the whole thing, air-raids, fireworks, destruction, rubble, shrapnel, is a ... Read the complete review

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