Hope and Glory

Name: Hope and Glory
Director: John Boorman
Released: 1987

John Boorman

1987

Synopsis

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

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100
TV Guide Magazine
Hope and Glory is a wonderful film, an intelligent, heartfelt, personal, and marvelously entertaining look at what it was like to grow up in wartorn England.
100
Washington Post
Hope and Glory is so enjoyable you want it to be a 16-part mini-series. When it's over, you sit staring at the credits, as you would the last page of a good book, wishing for another chapter.
90
Washington Post
John Boorman's childhood and the London Blitz happened to coincide. Which is great for the movie Hope and Glory, because he turns both events into exquisite myth.
90
The New York Times
Hope and Glory has an invitingly nostalgic spirit and a fine eye for the magical details that a little boy might notice.
90
Time Out
Boorman's autobiographical film about family life during the Blitz is subversively light on the blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice, and a joy throughout.
90
The New Yorker
The movie is wonderfully free of bellyaching; it's a large-scale comic vision, with 90-foot barrage balloons as part of the party atmosphere.
80
Variety
Essentially a collection of sweetly autobiographical anecdotes of English family life during World War II.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
There is something almost perverse in the way Boorman defines his point of view. He is not concerned in this film about the tragedy of war, or the meaning of war, but only with the specific experience of war for a grade-school boy. Drawing from his autobiographical memories, he has not given the little boy in the movie any more insights than such a little boy should have.