0ur opinion:Description:Winner of six Academy Awards(R) 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(R)-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: 1942 Director: William Wyler Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
: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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* 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!!
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Amazing Miniver
Wow...l just saw this movie for the first time on TCM. l am 18 and l don't think l have ever seen a movie that l was so emotionally involved in. This movie has it all. lt is a movie about war, but it doesn't take you to the battlefields. l felt that l was scuttling to the shelter when the air raid sirens went off.
Greer Garson was born to play this role. She is the typical mother who has to hold the family together during war time. An almost impossible job but many women had to fulfill this role in the 194Os.
A must see movie....again, W0W!!
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* A Classic ...
Classic Greer Garson and classic war movie. A glimpse into what the British people had to deal with during the war.
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"lt is a war of the people... of every man, woman, and child who loves freedom!"
Mrs. Miniver isn't your typical wartime story, which is what makes it so wonderful. lt carries the sentiment of its time with a great cast, but we don't see any violence and the war doesn't affect the people like one might expect. The results of war aren't sugarcoated, so the viewer is left with a powerful emotional experience at the end of the film.
Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson) is a kind and elegant women of England. Her primary concerns are caring for her family and convincing her husband (Walter Pidgeon) that her extravagant new hat is worth the price she paid for it. Then her son Vincent (Richard Ney) comes home from school, only to catch the eye of wealthy Carol Beldon (Teresa Wright). The town's biggest concern is a pending flower show where legacy winner Lady Beldon (Dame May Whitty) is threatened by Mr. Ballard's (Henry Travers) "Mrs. Miniver" rose. All of their happy plans come to a halt, though, when the country goes to war and homes are replaced with bomb shelters and families are torn apart to do their duty for the cause.
The acting is outstanding. Garson is captivating in her role. Her age isn't well suited for the part, but her maturity makes that irrelevant. Ney is appropriately boyish and excited and Wright is lovely. Also notable are the children in the film (Christopher Severn and Clare Sandars) who play their roles convincingly and sweetly.
Strangely enough, although Ney played her son in this film, Garson married him after the filming of Mrs. Miniver. The union ended badly, but their real-life relationship makes for interesting viewing.
Also included on this disk is the theatrical trailor, Garson's 0scar speech, and two WWll era shorts.
