The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. (imdb)

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Genres: Romance, Drama, War

Country: USA

Directed By: William Wyler

Written By: MacKinlay Kantor, Robert E. Sherwood

Starring: Gladys George, Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Donnell, Ray Collins, Hoagy Carmichael, Minna Gombell, Roman Bohnen, Harold Russell

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Jul 04	kappeuter	70 _0%
Jul 04	Nathers7	8 _76%
Jun 28	n2cfilm	80 _0%
Jun 26	lostyourmind	10 _87%
Jun 25	IMDBbbbb	80 _63%
Jun 24	pinegrove	82 _84%
Jun 16	matthagen	51 _54%
Has some of that old-timey stuffiness, but it's also pushing back against that stuffiness at many turns. It's long, but it didn't feel that long. The acting was alright, but the sense of humor won me over in many scenes. I wasn't expecting much, and it surprised me. I can't say that I'm ever planning on seeing it again though.
Jun 13	D Lightman	70 _71%
Jun 12	JZ17	87 _77%
Jun 09	TheShiznit	73 _96%
May 31	Omid Ranjbar	60 _71%
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May 16	Flitskonijn	80 _0%
May 15	OlivVerdys	90 _97%
May 14	asperastrum ()	94 _96%
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May 06	Hyperion+	2 _20%
May 02	Hadleyreis	84 _83%
When life throws you a fist fight, use hooks
May 01	DennisJ1976	50 _27%
Apr 29	KingofPain	65 _0%
Apr 19	dlthompson	90 _80%
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Feb 02	tammineni ()	80 _68%
Jan 25	danvtemt	9 _76%
Jan 19	twincinema	80 _76%
An oddly contemporary film about PTSD and the difficulty of transitioning from the war. I wish men still talked like this. In every film from, like, 75 years ago, they have this weird voice. How do I explain this better? Just pretend I am uploading an audio recording of me doing the voice. Do you get it now?
Jan 19	jam66539	80 _86%
Jan 18	LordKubrick	64 _10%
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Jul 03, 2019	quotidian	10 _92%
Jun 11, 2019	vv238	83 _86%
There is something very sobering about The Best Years of Our Lives. Especially given the fact that the general idea that WWII is the last "great" war that was morally righteous. Without any violence, this is one of the best anti-war films ever made.
Jun 10, 2019	Slowjoe	48 _22%
Jun 08, 2019	Geslimmar	60 _61%
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Dec 25, 2018	knives	88 _96%
Dec 20, 2018	PepeCamello	80 _85%
Dec 08, 2018	Bartbaard	79 _82%
Well color me surprised! I expected to be bored sitting through this almost three hour film, but I was captivated by the characters. Three men. One young, one "old" and one somewhere in between. All of them are introduced wonderfully and their camaraderie really shines through. Homer's story is the one that is the most interesting and the one that has a fulfilling ending. I do believe the film could have addressed a bit more of the war-drama, but it was definitely worthwhile.
Dec 03, 2018	worrywirt	70 _53%
Nov 23, 2018	Grumblebutt	87 _83%
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Nov 11, 2018	peyrin	55 _25%
The sterilized boomer bait dampens the relevance of the societal commentary here, but nevertheless it's a neat little time capsule sealed within the Best Picture vault.
Oct 16, 2018	barkingokan	90 _41%
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Sep 09, 2018	Zepheus	80 _89%
Sep 01, 2018	CosmicMonkey	78 _55%
There are things I like: the (for the time) progressive and sympathtic portrayals of disability and trauma and the solid character development, but also things I don't like it's strong emphasis on traditional gender roles, it's slow place, and overly-long runtime. A film that was undoubtedly an influential and important bit of film history, whose relevence has waned in the modern day. Harold Russell was outstanding in his role, impossible to believe he had never acted before in his life.
Sep 01, 2018	emre_alex	50 _11%
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Jul 13, 2018	frederic_g54	6 _35%
I'd like to think this was supposed to be about the dark aftertaste of what war does to soldiers and how it affects them long after they've left the battlefield. Instead, we're saddled with some aimless antics of Stephenson getting wasted all the time, Homer learning a piano tune and a meandering romantic subplot that takes a hell of a long time to amount to anything even worthwhile. A respectable but mostly unremarkable effort from Wyler, of whom I was never a big fan to begin with.
Jul 09, 2018	Eski-or-die	90 _86%
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Jun 17, 2018	aviator	70 _40%
Jun 10, 2018	nunobar	50 _24%
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May 01, 2018	John Milton	80 _87%
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Apr 14, 2018	bd741	70 _62%
Apr 13, 2018	dourface	70 _67%
Apr 02, 2018	onarabaci	90 _55%
Mar 24, 2018	NathanBates	80 _75%
Slightly dated story about three men returning from World War II and trying to pick up their lives again. There's a little too much coincidence in their crossing paths over and over again, but it doesn't drag the film too much. (A modern remake might focus on the mental anguish a bit more, for better or worse.) All in all, a good movie, but one I wish ran about 20 minutes shorter.
Mar 23, 2018	foultone	72 _27%
Mar 19, 2018	RottenT	96 _91%
Mar 16, 2018	darius	95 _66%
Mar 06, 2018	rollsroyce	35 _17%
Mar 05, 2018	Ceekay19	60 _32%
Fred Derry: "You gotta hand it to the Navy; they sure trained that kid how to use those hooks."
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Classic.
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Aug 23, 2017	Guernica	67 _76%
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Aug 17, 2017	chmul_cr0n	84 _95%
It's hard to put into words how good William Wyler is.
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Apr 13, 2017	CharlieSmith	85 _92%
Apr 10, 2017	CalumRhys	92 _80%
William Wyler's engrossing masterpiece hits hard at every turn and crafts a story rife with exceptional drama, heartfelt emotion and underlying humour. A scene in particular, featuring Homer Parrish (Harold Russell) as he unveils the full extent of his disability to his wife-to-be, is like no scene I have ever seen, it was completely moving, and then his everlasting smile as he sheds a single tear, powerfully complex in emotional value and extremely well-executed.
Apr 09, 2017	ICMforum	100 _89%
Apr 08, 2017	gackt	80 _87%
Apr 02, 2017	jonesymonroe	0 _32%
Mar 29, 2017	roland	60 _35%
Mar 25, 2017	Cinephilia	100 _66%
William Wyler's engrossing masterpiece hits hard at every turn and crafts a story rife with exceptional drama and heartfelt emotion. A scene in particular, featuring Homer Parrish as he unveils the full extent of his disability to his fiancee, is like no scene I have ever seen, it was completely moving, I haven't felt so emotionally-affected by a film in quite some time, and then his everlasting smile as he sheds a single tear, powerfully complex in emotional value and extremely well-executed.
Mar 21, 2017	thrillington	90 _69%
Mar 11, 2017	RYM-byrates	78 _97%
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Feb 10, 2017	jsa86_86	60 _47%
Feb 05, 2017	SlrSoapbox	90 _92%
A masterpiece of a film. The entire cast delivers wonderful performances, but what I appreciated most was the realism of the script.
Jan 31, 2017	vladeckk	60 _49%
Jan 30, 2017	zmt311	85 _94%

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