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Masterpiece Theatre: Carrie's War

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I came across this movie on a BBC channel late one night and was instantly intrigued. The characters are enchanting and the storyline always keeps you interested. I stayed up way too late watching it through to the end, but it was worth it, and now I'm buying it on DVD to share with my kids and looking for the book. It's great!!!!!!

Simply wonderful rendering: perfect cast, lovely score, beautiful undercut direction. The only warning I have is to turn off the DVD near the end, when Carrie and her brother are leaving Wales. Thereafter is botched and incongruent. If you're going to use a certain convention, one must do it in the first ten minutes of a story - not introduce it at the ending, where it clumsily destroys all the lovely moments preceding it. Nonetheless, a terrificly enjoyable 90 minutes.

I loved this movie, and I loved the ending! One reviewer said to turn off the DVD when Carrie and her brother are leaving Wales, but if you've never read the book, you'll be left hanging! Please watch ALL of this movie! It is wonderful. You won't regret it.

Carrie Willow and her younger brother are evacuees from London during World War II. They are taken to a small town in Wales, where a young woman living with her very strict older brother takes them in. Over the next few months Carrie and her brother meet other members of their adoptive family and learn many surprising secrets. Eventually, everyone learns much more about the power of love, acceptance, friendship and forgiveness.

This is a very well done film, accurately depicting life in World War II Britain. The characters are all appealing, and there's enough humor to keep some of the weightier themes from bogging the story down, so even the youngest children should love it and learn from it. The ending, set twenty five years or so in the future, is especially affecting and bound to bring tears to your eyes.

I almost didn't want this movie b/c of some of the less favorable reviews - I thought something awful must happen at the end. Instead, you find out this is a story within a story. Yes, the actress who played the grown-up Carrie didn't look much like the young Carrie, but that's a minor quibble. Yes, the end is full of coincidences and was sugar sweet, yet I wouldn't have wanted a sadder, more realistic ending. It left me with a sense of hope and magic. It was a sweet, feel-good film.

This movie was very touching, well acted, and just a joy to watch. The story line is moving and very clever. My sixteen year old daughter and I just love it! I highly recommend this movie.

Carrie's War surprised me in presenting the main character as a confident and brave young teen. It is hard enough to imagine evacuation to the countryside with forced separation from parents, but to have no certain place to go? How would any youngster handle it? Timid and frightened. Even after they were relectantly chosen at last, they ended up in the home of a serious disciplinarian.

Carrie and even her little brother take it all in stride and even manage to enjoy their situation. Carrie is certainly not a Pollyanna, but she does manage to win over most around her. She also begins to discover boys. But it isn't until the end of her stay that she cracks through the thick skin of her disciplinarian host in the countryside.

Carrie's War is a good family movie and a great movie for young girls who need strong role models.

If you're not afraid of happy endings and lovely stories with good hearted people, then you'll love this. It's a beautifully done film, as we've come to expect from Masterpiece Theater. The acting is all first rate; the children are perfect.

Some folks equate misery with artfulness and they are the ones who complain about the ending. Too bad; there are plenty of dreary, sick, depressing films for them to see.

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This was a great look into the time period of the second world war and what it was like for children relocated away from their homes. Good characters - and realistic.