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 Land Girls (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1998 / Director: David Leland / Actors: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz ... / DVD ... more  Land Girls (DVD) ... released 10 September, 2001 at Cinema Club / Features of the DVD: PAL / During the Second World War, Britain's women were asked to help out the farming industry by joining The Women's Land Army (The Land Girls). Three city gals make their way to the Lawrence farm in Dorset, and find themselves taking to the work easily enough. The only problem between them is each want young Joe (Steven Mackintosh) for their own reasons. Ag (Anna Friel) is the fiery sort who'll take pleasure where she finds it; Prue (Rachel Wiesz) just wants a lesson in the ways of the world; while Stella (Catherine McCormack) is looking for a way out of the private trap she's set in motion back home, but her feelings are the most sincere of the bunch. The film is Stella's story really (as adapted from the novel by Angela Huth), and has her affecting the on-off decision by Joe to join the RAF, the fight with the government to keep the East Meadow as it is and the paths the two other girls end up taking. Everything is very sweet-natured, especially when played out against a backdrop of rolling green hills, chuffing steam engines and knee-high socks tucked into Wellington boots. There's no comment on the effects of war as such, instead this film is more about the reasons why we make choices in life. --Paul TonksNewest Review: ... had a big impact on the recognition of womens potential role in the work place and their ability to do jobs formerly belived ... more ... to be in the male domain.
Cast List
Catherine McCormack ... Stella
Rachel Weisz ... Ag (Agapanthus)
Anna Friel ... Prue (Prudence)
Steven Mackintosh ... Joe Lawrence
Tom Georgeson ... Mr. John Lawrence
Maureen O'Brien ... Mrs. John Lawrence
Lucy Akhurst ... Janet
Gerald Down ... Ratty, Lawrence Farm Hand
Paul Bettany ... Philip
Nick Mollo ... Barry Hampton
Michael Mantas ... Desmond
Nicholas Le Prevost ... Agricultural Officer
Celia Bannerman ... District Commissioner
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Land Girls (DVD): Get back to mother nature (274 words)
by sympatic - written on 16.07.08 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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Set during the second world war this is a nice little drama with some touching moments and is an enjoyable film to watch with some good solid performances. The film focuses on a group of female volunteers in The Womens Land Army who helped support the agricultural industry during the war when all the men wer off fighting. The war had a big impact on the recognition of womens potential role in the work place and their ability to do jobs formerly belived to be in the male domain. Cast List Catherine McCormack ... Stella Rachel Weisz ... Ag (Agapanthus) Anna Friel ... Prue (Prudence) Steven Mackintosh ... Joe ...
Quietly moving (901 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 28.06.06 (Very useful, 92 readings)
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Introduction Much as I like to keep informed of what’s going on in the World Cup, I find it hard to watch a game the whole way through. So when I realised that The Land Girls was on Channel 4 at the same time as the match, I ended up watching that and just flicking every now and again to check on the score. Based on the novel by Angela Huth, the Land Girls is a film that I don’t remember making a particular splash when it was released back in 1998, yet it is a film that has always stuck in my mind for its quiet, non-vomit inducing, romance about a topic that is rarely captured in films – the land girls during the Second World War. The story Three ...
