The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

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The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his f... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Best Years of Our Lives:

Dana Andrews
Fredric March
Harold Russell
Teresa Wright
Myrna Loy
Cathy O'Donnell

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The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home.

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Reeling Reviews - 10/10 by Robin CliffordThis masterpiece may seem corny to some 55 years later but it never fails to bring a tear to my eye and an ache in my heart.
Creative Loafing - 10/10 by Matt BrunsonThis enduring classic remains perhaps the best film ever made about the hardships endured by soldiers returning home from war.
New York Daily News - 10/10 by Kate CameronThe dialogue is superb and the situations natural. The comedy touches are delightful. They spring from the inherent character of the people in the story, rather than the obvious contriving of playwright and director...A satisfying, heart-warming, deeply moving picture.
ReelViews - 10/10 by James BerardinelliThe Best Years of Our Lives runs almost three hours, but it doesn't seem nearly that long. The film is so involving that there's no temptation to glance at a watch, nor a need to get a snack or take a bathroom break. In fact, when it's over, there's almost a sense of disappointment that there aren't a few scenes left hiding on the other side of the closing credits. The feeling of warmth and satisfaction that accompanies the conclusion is the hallmark of a great drama - a distinction that anyone who has seen The Best Years of Our Lives will apply to this landmark production.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumThe best American movie about returning soldiers I've ever seen—the most moving and the most deeply felt. It bears witness to its times and contemporaries like few other Hollywood features, and Gregg Toland's deep-focus cinematography is one of the best things he ever did.
Time Out - 10/10 by Geoff AndrewOverlong, perhaps, but this tender and occasionally tough look at the plight of returning war veterans is one of Wyler's best films.
Boston Globe - 10/10 by Michael BlowenIt feels surprisingly modern: lean, direct, honest about issues that Hollywood then studiously avoided. After the war years of patriotism and heroism in the movies, this was a sobering look at the problems veterans faced when they returned home.
eFilmCritic.com - 10/10 by David CorneliusWyler and Goldwyn have made a glorious 'intimate epic,' one worthy of every honor bestowed upon it.
Matt's Movie Reviews - 10/10 by Matt EasterbrookThe Best Years Of Our Lives is a wonderful character study, and touches on points of humankind's psychiatric makeup that are so obvious they are rarely discussed in cinematic form.
New York Times - 10/10 by Bosley CrowtherIt is seldom that there comes a motion picture which can be wholly and enthusiastically endorsed not only as superlative entertainment but as food for quiet and humanizing thought.

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