- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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2 out of 5
Life on the home front is given a distinctly rosy glow in this naffly nostalgic adaptation of Angela Huth's novel. Anna Friel's randy northerner, Rachel Weisz's sheltered blue-stocking and Catherine McCormack's bourgeois prude are surely the most stereotypical volunteers in the history of the Women's Land Army. Consequently, from the moment these urban interlopers arrive at Tom Georgeson's Dorset farm, there isn't a single scene that ends unexpectedly. The performances are earnest and the scenery is beautiful, but as the clichés clunk into place with deadening predictability, there's no sense of either dramatic or social conflict, let alone insight into the Land Girls' contribution to the war effort.
Plot Summary
Period drama starring Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel. England 1941: three very different young women arrive at a remote farm in rural Dorset to work for the Women's Land Army.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Stella
- Catherine McCormack
- Ag
- Rachel Weisz
- Prue
- Anna Friel
- Joe Lawrence
- Steven Mackintosh
- Mr Lawrence
- Tom Georgeson
- Mrs Lawrence
- Maureen O'Brien
- Janet
- Lucy Akhurst
- Ratty
- Gerald Down
- Philip
- Paul Bettany
- Barry
- Nick Mollo
Crew
- Director
- David Leland
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