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Feb 19, 1988 · Hope and Glory: Directed by John Boorman. With Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles, David Hayman. Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II.
John Boorman's Hope and Glory is a film about that precise season in the life of a young British boy who grows up in a London suburb during World War II. The film is first of all a painstaking re-creation of the period.
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John Boorman's "Hope and Glory" is a film about that precise season in the life of a young British boy who grows up in a London suburb during World War II. Maybe there is something in the very nature of war, in the power of guns and bombs, that appeals to the imagination of little boys.
Bill, 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.
For young Billy Rowan (Sebastian Rice Edwards), the nightly bombings provide a frightening show, but they include opportunities to rummage through the rubble with friends in the mornings. As Billy...
- Comedy, Drama
The first scenes at school in bomb-damaged World War II London, Bill (Sebastian Rice Edwards, his character based on writer-director John Boorman) and his sister (Geraldine Muir) arrive late, and the headmaster (Gerald James) and a teacher (Barbara Pierson) take strident measures, in Hope And Glory, 1987.
Oct 5, 2012 · A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. MGM - 1987. Subscribe to TRAILERS:...
HOPE AND GLORY. 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.
The epic story of a world at war. And a boy at play. Overview. A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II. John Boorman. Reviews 1. Discussions 1. A review by CinemaSerf. Written by CinemaSerf on January 30, 2024.
