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14/09/2007 Drama, Romance 1h 58m
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Discover the love of a lifetime.

Overview

During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.

  1. Richard Attenborough

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Shirley MacLaine

    Ethel Ann

  2. Christopher Plummer

    Jack

  3. Mischa Barton

    Young Ethel Ann

  4. Stephen Amell

    Teddy Gordon

  5. Neve Campbell

    Marie

  6. Pete Postlethwaite

    Quinlan

  7. Martin McCann

    Jimmy

  8. Allan Hawco

    Peter Etty

  9. Gregory Smith

    Young Jack

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-08-30
Richard Attenborough has assembled a good cast for this nostalgic wartime drama. In a troubles-torn Belfast, the young Wilbur (Dylan Roberts) finds a ring in a burnt out aircraft left over from WWII. His search for the owner leads him to Shirley MacLaine's "Ethel Ann", and our story slowly reveals, via a mix of current and retrospective scenarios, just what happened when and to whom. The beginning is a bit disjointed, the chopping and changing of timeframes and characters happens too soon after the film starts without us having quite enough information to follow the story easily, but once that...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$23,000,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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