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The Best Years of Our Lives
starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
directed by: William Wyler

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792846130
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0792846133
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Running Time: 172 minutes
Sales Rank: 1731
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1946

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It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to becomea nightmare. Captain Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) is returning to a loveless marriage; Sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March) is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him; and young sailor Homer Parrish (Harold Russell) is tormented by the loss of his hands. Can these three men find the courage to rebuild their world? Or are the best years of their lives a thing of the past? Featuring a brilliant cast that includes Myrna Loy and Virginia Mayo, this postwar classic garnered* seven OscarsÂ(r), including Best Picture. Heart-wrenching, touching and 'filled with emotional dynamite' (The Hollywood Reporter), it remains 'one of the best films about war veterans ever made' (American Movie Classics). *1946: Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Writing/Screenplay, Film Editing, Music/Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

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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 celebration and happy reunion to deep-rooted ambivalence and reassessment of personal priorities. A movie milestone when released in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives still packs a punch with powerful, timeless themes. --Jeff Shannon

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- 3.5 stars out of 4
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An affecting and touching story or three soldiers returning from WWII to a country that has changed profoundly since they've been gone, The Best Years of our lives has lost little of its power over the years; though at times the movie feels overly melodramatic, it's a very worthy and well-acted tale.

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- What a great movie!
I had only seen snippets of this movie on TV through the years, so I was surprised and pleased at how good a film it is -- still relevant in many ways more than half a century after it was made. It gives a realistic picture of what it was like for returning veterans from WWII, who came back to a largely mundane existence after the terror and excitement of war. It shows how hard this adjustment was for the vets, and how their families also had to struggle with the changes. I highly recommend it.

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- Before the movie, before the screenplay, a book-length poem
Many viewers of this great American movie -- it won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, for 1946 -- are unaware that it was based on a most unusual book-length narrative poem by MacKinlay Kantor, "Glory for Me," published in 1945.

In 1970, I was a lieutenant working at the Air Force Historical Research Center. The older historians told a word-of-mouth story how the book and the movie came to be. No doubt the story had been embroidered over many years of retelling, but here's the way I heard it.

In 1944, movie titan Samuel Goldwyn knew that whether the allied victory in World War II would come sooner, or later, millions of American veterans would return home. Many -- especially those with physical and psychological wounds -- would have trouble finding jobs and "readjusting."

Goldwyn knew that journalist and playwright MacKinlay Kantor, who had flown missions with the 305th ... Read More

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- After the war is over
I like this movie. It showed what happens, when the boys come home from war. It's very realistic. I recommend this movie.

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