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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790746630 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790746638 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: March 07, 2000 Running Time: 134 minutes Sales Rank: 19266 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1942
Amazon.com: A movie doesn't win seven Oscars for nothing. A glowing Greer Garson (Best Actress) commands the screen as Mrs. Miniver, a middle-class British housewife whose strength holds her family together as World War II literally hits their home. Walter Pidgeon as her architect husband seems to be the prototype for future TV dads in this affecting portrait of love--familial and romantic--during war. But the relationship between Mrs. Miniver's college-age son (Richard Ney) and the upper-crust Carol (Best Supporting Actress Teresa Wright) is filled with inherent drama--as the war speeds up their young love, it also has the potential to doom it. The 1942 film, which also won for Best Picture and Best Director, is filled with colorful characters, snappy dialogue, and sensational plot twists. Although you spend much of the movie dreading that one of the Minivers will become a casualty of war, when it finally happens, it's not what you anticipated. Exactly what you'd expect from a legendary film that lives up to its billing. --Valerie J. Nelson
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Rating: - Mrs. Miniver-the review
Mrs. Miniver is Greer Garson at her best. This wartime story tells of a family during the bombings of England. Every member is affected-either by going off to war itself ,or volunteering one's services to the war effort. Mrs.Miniver has some prize winning roses,and the effort made by everyone in the community to lead normal everyday lives is apparent by having a rose judging contest. Although enemy planes are flying and dropping bombs dangerously close,it is a clear case of what people would do to lead normal lives after their world has been turn upside down.
Greer Garson won an oscar for ... Read More
Rating: - Love this WWII classic
What a brave woman. The story has love and loss. You will laugh and cry. I must have for a good film collection.
Rating: - There will always be an England.
I find World War II movies about the home front more interesting than actual battle scene flicks. More people can relate to the experience than the small percentage of soldiers that actually saw combat.
There are some really fine movies such as "Since You Went Away", "Tender Comrade" & the essential "Best Years of Our Life", actually made in 1946. Mrs Miniver from 1942 was one of the first of these movies & perhaps just a little better. It takes place in England as the war is about to begin portrays Dunkirk & the blitz that followed. It was aimed smack dab at American public ... Read More
Rating: - A Viewer
A wonderful movie which deserved all the awards which were bestowed upon it. It is refreshing to view great movies with wonderful stories minus bad language and nudity.
As a big fan of Greer Garson, I must comment on Jane Bedinger's review in which she claimed that Ms. Garson was having an "affair" with the actor who played her son. Ms. Garson fell in love with and married Richard Ney about a year after the movie was made. I don't see how Ms. Bedinger could consider this an "affair".
Rating: - the subtlety and greatness of "Mrs. Miniver"
When I watch this film, I feel like I am in Britain during those dramatic months when the RAF was fighting daily to ward off the brain-washed German barbarians, and the world was hanging by a thread. (Helmut Dantin shouts in German like Hitler at one point: "We will destroy everything!")Though it won the Academy Award in 1942, it was in fact made in 1941, and it is about events in 1939-1940, when Britain stood alone, a never-to-be-forgetten moment in human history. People more objective than I will call it propaganda; I call it a dramatic portrayal of the essence of a historial moment.
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