Housewife, 49
Housewife, 49

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In the late 1930s Nella Last, a housewife aged 49, living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast,agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass observation project, a non-governmental scheme designed to chronicle the lives of ordinary people. When war comes Nella defies her over-protective husband to join the local Women's Voluntary Service. Initially diffident she blossoms thanks to the dominant but kindly Mrs. Waite, and enjoys her independence as a useful ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Housewife, 49:

Victoria Wood
David Threlfall
Ben Crompton
Christopher Harper
Stephanie Cole
Marcia Warren

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In the late 1930s Nella Last, a housewife aged 49, living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast,agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass observation project, a non-governmental scheme designed to chronicle the lives of ordinary people. When war comes Nella defies her over-protective husband to join the local Women's Voluntary Service. Initially diffident she blossoms thanks to the dominant but kindly Mrs. Waite, and enjoys her independence as a useful war worker. The film also shows her relationship with her two sons as well as the effect of the war on the community and ends by explaining that Nella kept in touch with the Mass Observation project until her death in 1968.

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User Review - 10/10 by drew fexcellent,,glad victoria can do some great straight roles besides comedy,far from her days from thats life with esther rantzen!
User Review - 10/10 by Cynthia NI really loved this gentle movie. A woman finds herself through volunteering during WWII in Britain. This is taken from actual diaries of Nella Last, and her part is played wonderfully by Victoria Wood, who I think is usually a comic actress.
User Review - 8/10 by Cynthia SWell acted by Victoria Wood helping to make a thoroughly enjoyable film
User Review - 8/10 by Bruce WA really nice little movie about the changes, positive as well as negative, that WW2 made in people's lives. Victoria Wood is perfect as the diary-writing wife and mother who grows in confidence as she begins to see the big picture.
User Review - 8/10 by Stuart MA poignant story based on the diary of Nella Last, who described herself as a Housewife, 49, in her first submission to a World War 2 Mass Archive project. She was to keep up the submissions for nearly 30 years. The film follows Nellaâ??s life during wartime from 1939 to 1945, as she blossoms from a timid mouse, unable to come out her husbandâ??s shadow, to a determined organizational leader of the Womenâ??s Voluntary Service and the Red Cross. Victoria Wood does a great job of portraying the sadness, humor and often poverty of wartime. She lives through the personality changes of her sons, and the deaths of their companions. all the while growing as a person, becoming more assertive, until by the end of the war, she almost will miss it.
User Review - 8/10 by Brian GTender true tale of depressed housewife finding purpose in helping war effort. Says a lot about repressed Brits who'd already lived thru 1 great war & the young who came thru this one. As usual Brit historical costume drama always well done down to last detail
User Review - 6/10 by Liesa WThis movie captured war time well. My only question is they never really explained why they were collecting people's diary entries about the war. What were they going to do with them?

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