NRaleighLiberal
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Fri Mar-04-11 01:30 PM
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| Wonderful classic - The Best Years of our Lives - very pertinent even today... |
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About how WWII vets struggled to resume any sort of normal life when they returned home. Wonderful acting - just a classic worth rediscovering - especially with its current day relevance.
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| Graybeard
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Fri Mar-04-11 11:07 PM
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But have plenty of hankies or Kleenex handy.
What "The Grapes Of Wrath" was to the Great Depression this film is the definitive post WWII movie.
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| Lydia Leftcoast
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Sat Mar-05-11 11:01 AM
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| 2. Another endorsement for The Best Years of Our Lives |
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A well-deserved Oscar.
And yes, the guy who played the soldier without hands really was an amputee.
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| petronius
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Sun Mar-06-11 11:42 PM
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| 3. Is that streaming now? I'll definitely schedule a rewatch |
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The first time I saw it I'd never heard of it, and had the TV on in the background as we were getting ready to go out. It got to the speech that ends with "...well, you see, I've got a girl" and we decided to be very late to our party. Phenomenal film, and certainly some of the most real depictions of relationships that I've seen in a movie from that era...
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Mon Mar-07-11 07:18 AM
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| 4. not streaming yet, unfortunately....we did the snail mail Netflix disc rental... |
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