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      • The Great Escaper uses a well-known storytelling device: the war-damaged veteran. In doing so, it marks itself as a British answer to Saving Private Ryan (1998). The film, which pays homage to the war generation, revels in forties nostalgia and stakes an assertive British claim to the memory of the Allied invasion.
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  1. The Great Escaper is a 2023 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Oliver Parker, written by William Ivory, and starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson. It is based on the true story of 90-year-old British World War II Royal Navy veteran Bernard Jordan who "broke out" of his nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations ...

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  3. May 13, 2024 · The Great Escaper follows the adventures of D-Day veteran, former Royal Navy Lieutenant Bernie Jordan (Michael Caine), who in 2014 sneaked out of his East Sussex care home to travel to Normandy to pay his respects on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings.

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  4. Nov 8, 2023 · During The Great Escaper‘s ending, Bernie ridiculed the attention he received. While the public celebrated the happy ending, he was aware that there was none. He was titled ‘the great escaper,’ whereas in reality, there was no escape from old age and the looming fear of death.

  5. Almost half a century after they last played a husband and wife on the big screen, film icons Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson reunited for The Great Escaper. A true-life drama based on the remarkable story of D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan, it gives us Glenda Jackson’s final performance and promises to be one of the most poignant films of the ...

  6. Mar 4, 2024 · A true story centring on Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) – a near-90-year-old who staged a “great escape” from his retirement home in 2014 in order to join his fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy to commemorate their fallen comrades – the film’s layer of sentimentality threatens to give way to a certain schmaltz, but director ...

  7. Oct 26, 2023 · The Great Escaper: Directed by Oliver Parker. With Michael Caine, Graeme Dalling, Myles Olofin, Daniel Hayde. Bernard Jordan escapes from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.

  8. Nov 7, 2023 · The Great Escaper uses a well-known storytelling device: the war-damaged veteran. In doing so, it marks itself as a British answer to Saving Private Ryan (1998).

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