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Mrs Miniver [VHS] [1942]
 
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Mrs Miniver [VHS] [1942]

VHS ~ Greer Garson
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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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 colourful 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 would expect from a legendary film that lives up to its billing. --Valerie J. Nelson, Amazon.com


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A war time drama which depicts the lives of ordinary English house-wives. Based on a book by Jan Struther.

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars MRS MINIVER IS A CLASSIC!, 17 May 2000
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Mrs Miniver is one of the best classic films in existence. It is a wonderful film with much sentiment and patriotism. Greer Garson, one of the finest "stars" of the 1940's, gives a gripping performance as the title character (and she won an Oscar for it to prove it). The most incredible thing about Mrs Miniver is that it is a WWII movie filmed during WWII, so the outcome of every thing was still unknown. It is even said that Mrs Miniver was one of Winston Churchill's favourite movies...it certainly is one of mine.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable film, 17 Aug 2003
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This is a remarkable film, especially when you think it was made in the early 40s and no one knew what the ultimate outcome of the war would be. Particularly poignant was the scene of the family in the Anderson shelter during an air raid. I watched it with my sister whilst on holiday in England, all these things happened over twenty years before we were born and it humbles you to think of the sacrifices that were made for us and how lightly we take our freedom. I wish more people of my generation could see this film.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Muddling through, 12 Mar 2007
By David R. Bishop "Bishbaby" (Plymouth, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mrs Miniver [1942] [DVD] (DVD)
Sir Winston Churchill said that Mrs Miniver did more for the British war effort than a fleet of destroyers. Released in 1942 when America had not long entered world war 2, it showed the US public the desperate situation that Britain was in, and did much to strengthen the US ressolve to fight and win.

Greer Garson gives a fine oscar winning performance, as a housewife coping with the horrors of a war that was brought home to the civilian population. Her intelligence, natural charm and good humour made her the perfect choice for the role.

Greer was ably assisted by her co-stars. You have to forgive the dodgy English accents of her husband (Walter Pidgeon), her elder son (Richard Ney)and his sweetheart (Teresa Wright). It does not spoil their good work. Most of the other main players were Brits, including Dame May Whitty, who gives her usual flawless performance, and Mrs Miniver's two younger children. Her younger son in particular, stands out as perhaps the most likable precocious child on film.

This film has the power to entertain people who were born long after he war had ended. It is just the film to watch on a wet Sunday afternoon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant of its kind
ok this is basically a propaganda film and some of the special effects dont stand close scrutiny but who cares. Read more
Published 2 days ago by R. Poole

5.0 out of 5 stars classic film
Classic world war two film starring Greer Garson. Focusses on D-Day landings as seen by an average middle class family.
Published 4 months ago by D. M. Fiddament

5.0 out of 5 stars A great, famous and absurd flagwaver !
There's lots of things misplaced in this film of WW2 rural Britain, when the menfolk went off to war, the ladies were left to get on with their flower arranging, and the hun were... Read more
Published 5 months ago by DoDo Fan

5.0 out of 5 stars "Our enemy is no respecter of flower shows."
As the story opens early in 1939, Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson) is a happy wife and mother living a charmed life in an English village. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Kona

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic War Movie
This movie is a "must have" classic. I would give it 10 Stars if I could.
It features bits of everything that was going on in UK during the early part of the war, the little... Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2007 by ray dorrity

3.0 out of 5 stars America's Britain
Mrs Miniver is the wife of a typical English family. She, and the rest of her family, experience life in the first months of World War II. Read more
Published on 8 May 2004 by Ms. TE Wnek

5.0 out of 5 stars Greer Garson IS Mrs Miniver
Such was the power of this WW2 film that Greer Garson complained that she was forever more referred to as 'Mrs Miniver'. Read more
Published on 17 April 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Not enough stars for this movie
It is hard to tell of the importance of this movie and skip the details. Yes the technical stuff may not be that interesting in a review like, after first choice Norma Shearer... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2002 by bernie

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