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Jan 7, 2015 · Queen & Country: Directed by John Boorman. With Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt, David Thewlis. In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
Queen and Country is a 2014 British drama film written and directed by John Boorman.It was screened at the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a sequel to Boorman's Hope and Glory (1987), and features several of the same characters, although, because of the passage of time, David Hayman is the only actor from the first film to reprise his role.
Feb 18, 2015 · The Korean War is on. Britain is poor, its empire is crumbling, and the Swinging Sixties are still far, far away. The film’s account of Bill’s military service has an anecdotal air, conveying the daily grind and comic absurdity of life in a drab rural base. Assigned to teach typing to Korea-bound recruits, he starts reading up on the ...
Feb 18, 2015 · Rent Queen and Country on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Graceful and bittersweet, Queen and Country finds writer-director John Boorman revisiting past ...
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May 22, 2015 · The long-awaited sequel to the Oscar-nominated masterpiece Hope and Glory, Queen & Country is the wonderfully witty and deeply moving new film by acclaimed d...
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2016. The whole thing exudes a warm, honeyed glow, particularly in those scenes where the women - Bill's mum (Cusack) and the object of his affection ...
QUEEN AND COUNTRY is the sequel to director John Boorman 's semi-autobiographical 1987 drama Hope and Glory, which followed a boy (based on Boorman) living in London during World War II. Set nine years after the end of the war, Queen and Country checks back in with Bill (Callum Turner) as an 18-year-old facing conscription into the National Army.
