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A bitter love story between a talented writer and a gentle nurse.A bitter love story between a talented writer and a gentle nurse.A bitter love story between a talented writer and a gentle nurse.
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- TriviaSandra Bullock researched her role of Agnes Von Kurowsky by reading her dairies that she kept during the war and reading the love letters between her and Ernest Hemingway.
- GoofsAt the beginning of this WWI movie an Italian marching band is playing the "Beer Barrel Polka". The song was not written until the late 1920's and is Czech.
- Quotes
Agnes von Kurowsky: You know what I've been told? Italian men respect their wives. They spoil their mistresses. But the only women they love are their mothers.
- SoundtracksBeer Barrel Polka
Music by Jaromir Vejvoda, Czech lyrics by Vasek Zeman and English Lyrics by Lew Brown, Wladimir A. Timm
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Tolerable for what it is . . .
I found this movie tolerable for what it is - and it is a movie VERY LOOSELY referencing a true story. I think 'based on' is just too defining. This is a portrayal based on a few letters - and even the words in those real letters written by the gal herself were just one small side of the story.
I read a few reviews where people felt this portrayal of E. H was in no way accurate.
I guess for everyone who felt that way, they must be still be the exact same person they were at 20 as they are at 60?
Still, for some reason, I do feel O'Donnell was miscast as E. H. But the lack of intense chemistry between the actors &/or the characters was useful - because this relationship was never meant to be. Honestly, and I don't mean to negate the need or importance of it - but the number of short-lived romances that occur in war out of need & fear & many other emotions - is endless. They're meaningful in the moment - realistically most participants understand that. I think E. H. didn't want that fact to be true. To me, that whole concept what the movie portrays.
I can certainly imagine him as a competitive, brash 20 year old with idealistic expecations of war - and I did like that the movie portrayed he 'grew up' at least a little bit during his time in Italy. But nothing but decades matures us physically, mentally, & emotionally, and then, many are terribly stunted in one or both of the latter two.
As for his later writing about war - it's largely from observation rather than participation. That's the gifted writer. They don't necessarily have to and many never personally experience the stuff they write. So why expect or demand that of them?
As far as a war-romance-drama goes this was entertaining on that level only.
Don't go in expecting a completely true story. Don't leave it thinking you saw history.
Just accept the genre for what it is.
I read a few reviews where people felt this portrayal of E. H was in no way accurate.
I guess for everyone who felt that way, they must be still be the exact same person they were at 20 as they are at 60?
Still, for some reason, I do feel O'Donnell was miscast as E. H. But the lack of intense chemistry between the actors &/or the characters was useful - because this relationship was never meant to be. Honestly, and I don't mean to negate the need or importance of it - but the number of short-lived romances that occur in war out of need & fear & many other emotions - is endless. They're meaningful in the moment - realistically most participants understand that. I think E. H. didn't want that fact to be true. To me, that whole concept what the movie portrays.
I can certainly imagine him as a competitive, brash 20 year old with idealistic expecations of war - and I did like that the movie portrayed he 'grew up' at least a little bit during his time in Italy. But nothing but decades matures us physically, mentally, & emotionally, and then, many are terribly stunted in one or both of the latter two.
As for his later writing about war - it's largely from observation rather than participation. That's the gifted writer. They don't necessarily have to and many never personally experience the stuff they write. So why expect or demand that of them?
As far as a war-romance-drama goes this was entertaining on that level only.
Don't go in expecting a completely true story. Don't leave it thinking you saw history.
Just accept the genre for what it is.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,481,231
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,515
- Dec 22, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $25,372,294
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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