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1987

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A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2... Read more

Starring	Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor
Director	John Boorman
Genres	Drama

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Hope And Glory

A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2...

Starring	Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis, Ian Bannen
Director	John Boorman
Studio	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 48 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English, French
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1987 To Rent: DVD: 05 Sep 2005

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- Boorman's autobiographical film about family life during the Blitz is subversively light on the blood, sweat, tears and... read more on Time Out
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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:18
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  Brilliant.
  
  This is a film I remember watching as a family when I was younger and I was delighted when I saw was available here. I think it is a very heart warming and ... read more »
  
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  - 15 Nov 2005 at 15:40
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  Realistic Setting
  
  The acting was a little weak but this didn't spoil the film. A typical war time setting made it more realistic and very enjoyable.
  
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  - 07 Jul 2011 at 20:57
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  VOTES FOR WOMEN
  
  More than just an anecdote this sums up a period in a man's boyhood with remarkable clarity - mixed-in with well-remembered boyhood fantasies. The White way... read more »
  
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  - TUNBRIDGE WELLS, ENGLAND
  - 09 Jan 2011 at 12:38
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  A great alternative to the usual heroic war films
  
  Hope and Glory offers an alternative view of WWII; one which claims that the war helped many people escape their mundane lives and offered them some much needed... read more »
  
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  - Daniel Pollard
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  - 28 Aug 2009 at 16:30
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Maybe it's too early to say it, but I shouldn't be surprised if two of my top ten movies for 2007 turn out to be WWII dramas. Clint Eastwood's grim, compassionate Letters from Iwo Jima is released here Feb 23rd, and supplies a Japanese perspective on the same crucial battle featured in Flags of Our Fathers. I think it's his best film since Unforgiven, and maybe his best film period. But this week we get Black Book, a very different kind of war movie from Paul Verhoeven - the man who gave us... Read more

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