Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Ehirerapp Waste of time

Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Michael Ledo In 1940, England needs an inspiring film to uplift the hearts of their people and to influence Americans to enter the war. A brave story appeared in the paper about twin women who rescued soldiers retreating from Dunkirk in a private boat. Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) is tasked to interview the women and help turn it into a screen play. The screen play took on a life of its own with changing direction and rewrites. Catrin's life becomes complicated. This was a great story with romance, humor, drama, and a dog. Good characters.

paul jones This film was a throwback to the great days of film making. The war is merely a background to a story about a group of people trying to do their best in the face of adversity. It's also about women emerging into the workplace and fighting for their right to play a broader role in society. The characters all work together to generate a real empathy with the audience. Mainly, it contains fun, romance, heartbreak, redemption, a good story, fine acting and a warm heart. Park your cynicism for 2 hours and Enjoy.

TxMike My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library.The story starts in 1940, England is in a bad way with Germany bombing them often. They desperately want the USA to enter the war but, as we know now, it took Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941. Still, this movie is about making a film that not only would help keep the British calm but adding an American hero might get the USA more interested.Back in the 1940s there was no TV, not much radio, so it was mentioned that 30 million Brits, plus 90 Million Americans, attended movies. "Movies are like real life but with the boring bits left out."Gemma Arterton is Catrin Cole, a secretary, but with most of the young men in the war her writing was noticed. It was good, she was recruited to help develop the story and script for the movie. She has to work with Sam Claflin as writer Tom Buckley, in general looking down upon women, but somehow, gradually the two form attractions for each other. Catrin goes by "Mrs" but isn't actually married. When she goes back home to surprise her boyfriend and finds him in bed with a woman that takes care of that.My favorite here, as in many movies he is in, is Bill Nighy as snooty veteran actor Ambrose Hilliard. And, in a smaller role, Jack Huston is good as the cheating artist boyfriend Ellis Cole.Overall a pleasant, entertaining movie. But being primarily British it is often difficult to make out what they are saying, especially Claflin's lines, he tends to mumble a lot so we had to turn on the captions and replay important segments to fully understand what they were saying.

Reno Rangan The film was based on the book and about filmmaking, particularly screen writing. Fictional comedy-drama that is set in London in 1940. While the war tearing apart the nation, some people are not disturbed by it. They are going ahead with their film projects, especially war themed to boost the people's confidence. That's when the new arrival, Mrs. Cole, begins her career as a writer. So her experience working with the scripts, meeting the real people whose story are getting adapted and her gloomy romance, everything lets us know.A nice film and a little different than the majority of the film that came this year. The focus was good. I mean while bombs falling from the sky, all this tale concentrated was film business. Something like 'Argo', but given less preference to the war, except its consequences which diverted their plan in some scenario. So there were many small-small twist and turns. It also gets emotional at one stage. A well written and directed film similar to what the film characters did their best in the story.Gemma was good, but Claflin was totally different, in a good way. As much as I enjoyed, I also thought it should have been even better. Because thematically it was not for everyone. I mean the world war was a good idea, but the filmmaking was not like you are usually familiar with. Besides, it was not a laughing out loud comedy. Between the seriousness of war and fun around making films, the combination was rare and well worked out. Those who love pre 50s, 40s settings in a film would enjoy it for sure. Especially if they like films about films.6/10