Rent Mrs. Miniver (1942)

3.8 of 5 from 112 ratings
2h 8min
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Synopsis:
Kay Miniver (Greer Garson) doesn't fly a Spitfire in dogfights over London or ply the North Sea in a battleship, but she's doing her all for wartime England. And she does it so well that Winston Churchill would say Mrs. Miniver was more vital to the nation than a fleet of destroyers.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Sidney Franklin, William Wyler
Writers:
Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Jan Struther, Paul Osborn, R.C. Sherriff, Henry Wilcoxon
Others:
William Wyler, Harold F. Kress, Claudine West, James Hilton, A. Arnold Gillespie, Joseph Ruttenberg, Douglas Shearer, Warren Newcombe
Studio:
Warner
Genres:
Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
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Awards:

1943 Oscar Best Supporting Actress

1943 Oscar Best Director

1943 Oscar Best Actress

1943 Oscar Best Screen Play

1943 Oscar Best Cinematography Black and White

1943 Oscar Best Picture

BBFC:
Release Date:
16/02/2004
Run Time:
128 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, German Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, German, German Hard of Hearing, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W
Bonus:
  • Greer Garson Academy Awards footage
  • Photo Gallery
  • MGM Short film "Mr Blabbermouth" and "For The Common Defence"
  • Theatrical Trailer
BBFC:
Release Date:
25/03/2019
Run Time:
133 minutes
Languages:
Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0, French Dolby Digital 1.0, German Dolby Digital 1.0, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles:
Castillian, English Hard of Hearing, French, German Hard of Hearing, Italian Hard of Hearing, Korean, Latin American Spanish
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
B & W
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • 1942 Academy Awards Newsreel
  • Vintage Cartoon 'Blitz Wolf'
  • Two World War II-Era Shorts: 'Mr. Blabbermouth!' and 'For the Common Defense'
  • Theatrical Trailer

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Reviews (2) of Mrs. Miniver

Well Rounded War Drama - Mrs. Miniver review by AK

Spoiler Alert
30/03/2021

Hollwoods take on telling a British war movie. The story is about the experience of living through WW2 for provincial people. Greer Garson is amazing as the resilient mother figure and the plot twists and charcter arcs are well rendered; making this a meaningful film for all.

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Morale Booster. - Mrs. Miniver review by Steve

Spoiler Alert
24/11/2022

An archetypal portrait of life in the English home counties in the first years of WWII, and a sanitised vision of the shock and havoc unleashed by the Luftwaffe. The Minivers are an upper middle class family in a rural village hardly changed since the Domesday Book, where everyone knows their place. Much of the narrative centres on the competition for the best rose at the village fête...  

Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson) is a frivolous but kind and resourceful woman of the type that would become the unsung heroes of the home front. She captures a grounded Nazi pilot at gunpoint! Her husband (Walter Pidgeon) sails with the light rivercraft over the Channel to Dunkirk. Her charming son joins the RAF, and marries the daughter of the local aristocracy.

They adapt through courage and sacrifice. It's typical for UK viewers to be sniffy about Mrs. Miniver because it creates an Americanised impression of little England, with its arcane customs and preoccupation with class. But this was the actual model for many British homefront films made in the war years. And William Wyler's images would be copied many times before VE Day.

Mrs. Miniver was a gift from Hollywood, from MGM, to the British war effort. Production was started before Pearl Harbour, before the US officially entered the war. It helped reverse American isolationism. It's a sentimental film, but brilliant propaganda. Greer Garson won the Oscar and she's perfect casting. Of course her character is an ideal, but she became a symbol of the war effort.

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