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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300249837 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300249832 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: January 06, 1993 Running Time: 111 minutes Sales Rank: 23212 Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rating: - Slow Moving Critique of the British Class System and Army
This film is a critical view of the British class system dressed up as a First World War story. A young member of the Protestant Anglo-Irish landed gentry forms a friendship with a poor Irish Catholic from the neighboring village. The Protestant, named Alexander, is warned by his mother to break off the friendship because it is simply not done. When Britain enters the First World War, Alexander's father, who supports Home Rule and is sympathetic to the Irish nationalists opposes his son's joining the army saying that it is not Ireland's fight, but his aristocratic English mother encourages it. ... Read More
