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Whistle Stopper - Hope and Glory
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $3.37
Your Save: $ 11.61 ( 78% )
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sammi Davis
Directed By: John Boorman
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0027616862792
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-06-05
Running Time: 113
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1987-11
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Summary: retrosspective
Comment: It seems like it happened in another world and time. Good to have in the library.
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Summary: Hope and Glory
Comment: Hope and Glory
An excellent movie that I received in the estimated delivery time. This will encourage me to purchase more items in the future.
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Summary: a boy's view of war - a classic and unique film
Comment: I can't think of another film quite like this one with its flawlessly realized POV of a boy at home during Britain's WWII. The acting is entirely excellent, the cinematography is grand, the use of music is just right, in other words, not saturating the film in sentimentality. It's both poignant and very funny in an wholly realistic way.
After I got the DVD I wasn't that excited about seeing it again, only vaguely remembering that it had rec'd terrific reviews. When I finally ran out of other things to see, saw it and loved it so much I turned around and watched it again.
Only quibble--would love to have had an audio commentary from the director,would have been fascinating as the film is somewhat autobiographical.
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Summary: This is a classic and I've wanted it for a long time!
Comment: It's amazing to see how people react to war and this is most certainly a classic to have. To view this through the eyes of everyday life in England during the war and how it was for them is a movie for keeps.
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Summary: British born
Comment: British born blokes, like my ex-wife who experienced the Blitz, say this movie is just like it was. I wasn't there but can still feel and envy the era as I might have been.
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Editorial Reviews:
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British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarating portrait of his own childhood, set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII. Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice Edwards) finds his childhood to be atime of great dangerand even greater discovery. From thunderous bombings at his own doorstep andthe constant threat of Luftwaffe air raids to the landing of a German paratrooper in his neighborhood and the joyous obliteration of his much-hated school, Billy's young life is shapedand even enrichedby the one positive thing war has brought him: liberation from the ordinary. And though Billy is surrounded by decimation and the smoking remnants of ruined lives, his sense of enchanted wonderment and innocence in the face of man's most destructive folly affect him in a way that alters his life forever.
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