ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Maddyclassicfilms Millions Like Us is directed and written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. The film stars Patricia Roc, Anne Crawford, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins and Gordon Jackson.One of many morale boosters made during the Second World War, Millions Like Us shows us what the war was like for women.The film follows a group of women from different backgrounds who get work in an aircraft factory during the Second World War.There's the romantic and gentle Celia(Patrica Roc), the pragmatic and fun Gwen(Megs Jenkins)and the elegant and haughty Jennifer(Anne Crawford). These women become good friends and find that they can do a mans job just as well as any man could. The women work for the no nonsense factory foreman Charlie(Eric Portman). Charlie and Jennifer are complete opposites and bicker with one another, as time goes on the pair realise they actually have feelings for one another and their growing romance is beautiful and very funny to watch, Portman and Crawford are wonderful together and their scenes together are my favourites in the entire film.Celia finds love with Fred (a very young Gordon Jackson)who's an RAF pilot.Their romance is tender and their scenes together are so sweet, there is an awkwardness and a natural feel to their interactions as both characters are falling in love for the very first time.The film is interesting, funny and moving. The characters feel real and you feel like you've actually gotten to know them and shared their experiences. I wish the film was longer than it is so we could spend more time with these characters.No doubt this film made British women realise how valuable they could be by taking on jobs left vacant by men who had left for the war. The entire cast are superb, especially Anne Crawford who is an actress who should be much better known today, she died much too soon aged 35 in 1956.

MartinHafer "Millions Like Us" is an awfully good film because it is so incredibly ordinary and simple. That's because it's goal is to provide a snapshot of what life was like for seemingly ordinary women during WWII. It follows one woman in particular, but you also see quite a bit about the other women and their lives as well--and is an invaluable documentary-like look into the WWII era.The film begins just before WWII. Celia (Patricia Roc) and her family are living a relatively mundane and occasionally annoying lives. You don't really feel particularly connected to them or care about these folks at this portion of the film. However, after the war begins, Celia is called up for service--which she is eager to do, as she hates her mundane life with her parents. Unfortunately, she is NOT called up to the women's military service but is sent across the country to work in a war production plant. While she is very disappointed, this is a great thing to focus on, since this is the sort of job MOST British (and American) working women did during the war. I could say a lot more about what occurs to Celia, but it's better you just see it for yourself. Very well done, high on realism, charming as well as sad--well worth seeing. Plus, I loved the fact that repeatedly the film COULD have been jingoistic, extraordinary and ultra-nationalistic but chose instead the more subtle and realistic route instead.

howardmorley I rated this film 7/10 and in my opinion is Patricia Roc's best film as Celia Crowson.She gives a sensitive performance of an every day girl caught up in WWII who must do her bit for the war effort.While waiting for her assessment interview she sees a poster and fantasises being accepted into the WRAF/Wrens/Womens army corps/Land Girls or nursing assisting good looking officers, only to be asked to prosaically help out in a factory as "Mr Bevan needs a million women" to make the weapons, aeroplanes and assorted war material.At the heavy engineering factory she finds camaraderie in similarly placed women and romance with an air gunner in the RAF Sgt.Fred Blake (a very young Gordon Jackson).With all his daughters helping the war effort in different jobs and living away from home, Celias father Mr Crowson has to fend for himself and as he has no women to care for him, he has to survive in rather hand to mouth fashion after doing his duty in the Home Guard.There is sadness in store for Celia but the film ends on a hopeful note as the producers realised many families lost members of their family but the fight must continue in 1943.This is almost the same today for forces families whose sons and daughters are helping with the NATO presence in Afghanistan.

ady123 This is one of those old wartime movies that sucks you in with reasonable casting and a nice script, all coming together to give you a very pleasant viewing experience. There are no heroes, it's all about ordinary folk who are caught up in extraordinary times, and the film projects this theme well from start to finish.Gordon Jackson looked young enough in Whisky Galore but in this one he's almost cherubic.There's no teeth grinding patronising propaganda, this film went straight for the jugular and basically told audiences that in the interests of survival we all have to get the heck on with it, a message suitably softened by a nice human interest script, the characters are genuinely different and interesting.If you get the chance, this is definitely one to sit back with, relax and enjoy.