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Mrs. Miniver

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A moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. The family, headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch, endures the departure of the father for the beaches at Dunkirk, the discovery of a wounded Nazi pilot, the death of the daughter-in-law in an air raid, and the entry of the son into the Royal Air Force.

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Critics Consensus

An excessively sentimental piece of propaganda, Mrs. Miniver nonetheless succeeds, due largely to Greer Garson's powerful performance.

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Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting 04/09/2024
2.5/5
...sober enough to tell us that real people will die, but it's also saying [that] if you just suffer through it... all of our traditions will maintain. Go to Full Review Pauline Kael The New Yorker 07/28/2022
M-G-M's wartime salute to gallant England, engineered to make the audience choke up... [A] generally offensive picture. Go to Full Review Mildred Martin Philadelphia Inquirer 01/05/2022
Balancing pathos with gentle comedy, humor with stark tragedy, Mrs. Miniver is rich in those human qualities that give a drama life and real humanity. Go to Full Review Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm 04/02/2024
4/4
Garson's Mrs. Miniver comes to represent the stirring, steadfast heart of the community — if not the nation as a whole. Go to Full Review Kat Halstead Common Sense Media 03/01/2024
But there's enough heart and spirit to make this an enduring classic. Go to Full Review Christopher Lloyd The Film Yap 10/02/2023
4/5
Greer Garson shines in this unapologetically sentimental look at the lives of a British family during the early days of World War II, which won the Oscar for Best Picture. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Henry D @Henry_Domke Mar 6 Classic. A tear jerker. It was familiar, but everything worked and it was totally satisfying. See more Isaiah Y @zayman2 Feb 21 Good Morning William Wyler film with Greer Garson’s greatest performance See more Christian K @ckacar Jan 21 Couldn't engage with this at all. A dull portrayal of life in the London suburbs during the war. The only credit I can give is it kills the character you least expect. See more Deke P @RT96675217 07/13/2024 A classic title and 1942 WW2 movie with an all star cast. I wanted to click "Want to see', but with the inexplicable changes RT has made i find that button impossibly unobvious. Cuz I want to see it again... cuz I forget if i ever saw it. Cast: Dame May Witty, love that name, born in 1865. & GREER Garson... never heard of another female, or anyone, 1st name greer. See more Connor S @RT33873007 02/04/2024 Cheers, tears, and fears make this a wonderful movie from start to finish. It cannot be put into a box of "romance", "war movie", "comedy", "tragedy", "thriller", "heart-warmer", but is a mixture of all! See more David F @dfulmer 03/12/2023 This movie about a family facing the trials and tribulations of the early years of WWII in England shows the joys of family life, a favourite topic of MGM. It starts out with trifles like a wife being embarrassed to let her husband know how much money she spent on a hat and then segues into children going off to war and Nazi airmen parachuting into the back garden. While it's a bit lengthy at times for modern tastes, I think, it's full of gems like the bunker scene where the two parents, their two children, and the family cat, Napoleon, take shelter while a huge, violent bombing raid unfolds above them. Explosions and gunfire on the soundtrack gradually lead to jolts and shaking in their sandbagged shelter. It's a masterful combination of sound design, acting, and pacing and completely suspenseful and terrifying. It's also a metaphor for the whole movie and the way it subtly and gradually shifts from trifles and superficialities to life and death situations almost without the spectator noticing. It's the kind of film that makes an impact on you without doing so overly overtly. See more Read all reviews
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William Wyler

Director

Greer Garson

Kay Miniver

Walter Pidgeon

Clem Miniver

Dame May Whitty

Lady Beldon

Teresa Wright

Carol Beldon

Reginald Owen

Foley, Storekeeper and Air-raid Warden

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Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver (1942) Mrs. Miniver (1942) Mrs. Miniver (1942) Greer Garson (left) and Teresa Wright, starring in "Mrs. Miniver." Pictured here in a scene still from the film are Henry Travers, and Greer Garson, in the film "Mrs. Miniver." A scene still from the 1942 British wartime drama "Mrs. Miniver," featuring Henry Wilcoxon as the Vicar. View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis A moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. The family, headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch, endures the departure of the father for the beaches at Dunkirk, the discovery of a wounded Nazi pilot, the death of the daughter-in-law in an air raid, and the entry of the son into the Royal Air Force.
Director
William Wyler
Producer
Sidney Franklin, William Wyler
Screenwriter
George Froeschel, James Hilton, Jan Struther, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 4, 1942, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 21, 2016
Runtime
2h 14m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.37:1)
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