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Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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Winner of seven Academy Awards, including best picture, director, actor, and screenplay, William Wyler's brilliant drama about domestic life after World War II remains one of the all-time classics of American cinema. Inspired by a pictorial article about returning soldiers in Life magazine, the story focuses on three war veterans (Fredric March, Dana Andrews, and Harold Russell in unforgettable roles) and their rocky readjustment to civilian life in their Midwestern town of Boone City. Capturing the contradictory moods of America in the mid to late 1940s, this three-hour drama spans a complex range of honest emotions, from joyous...
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| Best Years of Our Lives Movie Review by E (10/11/2008) |
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Fascinated by a story he encountered about the difficulties marines faced re-acclimating themselves into civilian life after serving overseas, producer Samuel Goldwyn asked novelist and former Air Force correspondent MacKinlay Kantor to devise a story treatment. The result was so lengthy it became a novel instead, entitled...
(complete Best Years of Our Lives review by E)
How to you return to your normal life after war?
That is the question posed by this amazing and ahead of its time film about the heartache and staggering disappointment of life after war.
You will cry, I guarantee it, but this is one of those films we all need to see.
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