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Hope and glory [videorecording (DVD)].

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MGM/UA Home Video : [Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment], c2001.

World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- England -- Drama.

Contemporary classics (MGM Home Entertainment Inc.)

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (113 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.

Special features: Original theatrical trailer.

Widesccreen 1.78:1.

Includes English and French tracks with optional French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Original music, composed and conducted by Peter Martin ; directed, produced and written by John Boorman.

Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sammi Davis, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis and Ian Bannen with Sebastian Rice Edwards as Bill.

"British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarating portrait of his own childhood, set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII. Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice Edwards) finds his childhood to be a time of great danger - and even greater discovery. From thunderous bombings at his own doorstep and the constant threat of Luftwaffe air raids to the landing of a German paratrooper in his neighborhood and the joyous obliteration of his much-hated school, Billy's young life is shaped - and even enriched - by the one positive thing war has brought him: liberation from the ordinary. And though Billy is surrounded by decimation and the smoking remnants of ruined lives, his sense of enchanted wonderment and innocence in the face of man's most destructive folly affect him in a way that alters his life forever."--Container.

Coming-of-age films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Boorman, John, 1933-

Miles, Sarah, 1941-

Hayman, David, 1950-

O'Connor, Derrick.

Bannen, Ian, 1928-1999.

Rice-Edwards, Sebastian.

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