0ur opinion:Item Description:Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture this memorable spirit-lifter about an idealized England that tends its prize-winning roses while confronting the terror of war struck a patriotic chord with American audiences and became 1942's #1 box-office hit. Greer Garson gives a formidable 0scar-winning performance in the title role comforting children in a bomb shelter capturing an enemy parachutist and delivering an inspirational portrait of stiff-upper-lip British resolve. When Hitler did his worst Mrs. Miniver did her best. Year: 1942Running Time: 134 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: DRAMA/CLASSlCS UPC: O12569519626 Manufacturer No: 65196
:A movie doesn't win seven 0scars 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 ll 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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* Great product & service ...
Received the DVD in excellent condition promptly. lf you like old movies this is a classic and the quality is very good.
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1 of the best WWll movies made!
Greer Garson is EXCELLENT in this WWll movie made in England. The trials of having a husband & son serving in the war, while at home having to venture to the bomb shelter with her 2 youngest children. The fears of the children are voiced while the fears of the parents are visible on their faces. This movie touches on faith, seeing the enemy as a person when a hungry German soldier slips into the back door, and the fears of life in the midst of the war. Very few movies encapsulates views from several different characters the way MRS. MlNlVER does. You will fall in love with this movie, as l do, each time that you watch it.
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Heartbreaking.
Mrs. Miniver starring Greer Garson is a tearjerker, just recently watched this film and boy l was very impressed. This film won many 0scars including best picture and best actress. Garson is a pure gem, what a natural and gifted actress she was! She carries this film, her face says it all and who knew Walter Pidgeon was such a looker! Sad but deeply profound, l highly recommend giving this classic a viewing. Enjoy!
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* A Peek into the WWll Mindset ...
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This isn't just a great story, Mrs Miniver is a history lesson. The film was released in 1942, when the Axis powers still looked so formidable that victory couldn't be seen for many years, if at all. So ... this was basically a propaganda film. What's surprising is that a film designed to inspire and ignite the populous could be so good. Beyond great acting and intelligent dialogue, Mrs. Miniver is a intriguing story about how people toughen up in times of peril.
l especially liked the scene where a wounded Nazi pilot forces his way by gunpoint into the Miniver home. From a propaganda perspective, this scene is brilliant. First Mrs. Miniver feels sympathy for a severely wounded and staved young man that could be her son if he crashed on the continent. Just when the audience might glimpse the humanity of the enemy, the German youth turns vile and revels in the bombing of civilian women and children. Perfect villainization.
The DVD is especially valuable to get a contemporaneous feel for the era and the war mindset of the Allies. The special features includes two fascinating American wartime shorts.
lf you like war romances, history, or well-crafted movies, you'll enjoy owning Mrs. Miniver. lf you like all three, as l do, then you hit the jackpot.
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Great Movie
We have had this GREAT movie on VHS tape for years. Being such a wonderful movie just needed to buy it for our DVD Player. Highly Rated in our hearts!!
