Very disappointing...

Thanks for the memories!

Awesome Movie

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I love history .I love war movies This is simply boring to watch Dull movie

It's 1939 and war is declared against Germany. Billy Rohan lives with his parents, sisters Sue and rebellious teen Dawn in a working class London suburb. His father is a veteran and rejoins the army. His mother Grace changes her mind about evacuating Sue and Billy. The family stays together to face the London blitz. Billy befriends other boys and finds adventure with them. Dawn gets pregnant by a Canadian soldier. Their house burns down and they move in with Grace's parents.This is filled with memories of the war on the homefront from the point of view of a kid. There is the bomb damage, googly, the German downed pilot, collecting shrapnel, Pauline who losed her mom, German jam, runaway barrage balloon, and finally celebrating the school getting bombed. The movie is actually quite funny. The characters are compelling. It has the truth of recollection. This is the understanding of a kid who doesn't see the whole ugliness of war but mostly the adventure of the battle. It is the beauty of cinema that the audience can see both his view but also with the knowledge of the truth that he doesn't completely comprehend. It's a great coming-of-age film.

Bill Rohan, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses on Rosehill Avenue. His father is off chasing patriotic dreams of glory from behind a military clerk's typewriter; his teenage sister runs wild; his mother can't cope; but hopefully everything in the end will eventually turn out all right.....A semi autobiographical movie by Boorman, Hope and Glory is as British as British movies have been since the old Ealing comedies.And what's not to like about it? From the movie, you realise that growing up as a young child in WW2, must have had so much impact on your life, from family leaving, to lack of education, its all here, and even though Boorman slightly sugarcoats it and gives it an almost fairy tale like feel, its gripping stuff.Along with the fantastic cast, including a scene stealing Ian Bannen, the sets are spectacular and really have an authentic feel to the proceedings.The final third takes you away from the war, and the pain, and lets you spend the rest of the movie enjoying the English summer, a real treat, and a lovely way to end a film.For the lengthy running time, it moves along quickly, and although its a tough subject for many, the essence of the film is love, and how huge events bring the nuclear family close together.

World War 2 film as seen through the eyes of a nine year old boy during the heavy bombing raids by the Germans. Director John Boorman's autobiographical story is a deeply personal work filled with wonder. Easily one of the best movies of the genre, we see the blitz of London from the perspective of a child not yet corrupted by adulthood. While his mother and father are terrified by the ongoing chaos, the boy finds games to play while being captivated by the nightly "fireworks."His sister becomes pregnant by a Canadian soldier, his house burns down, but through it all the family survives the surrounding turmoil with fortitude. Boorman also wrote the script and succeeds in portraying his family with both love and humor; it is his best work.