Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

Emma's War

Play trailer Emma's War 1986 1h 32m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
Tomatometer 1 Reviews Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
In Australia, Emma Grange (Miranda Otto) and her younger sister are content to live their lives in a well-populated part of the Blue Mountains, but when their father (Terence Donovan) goes off to fight in World War II, their mother (Lee Remick) decides to move the family to the bush country for safety. The transition proves difficult for the sisters as they begin to blossom into womanhood, but it also takes an emotional toll on their mother, who descends into alcoholism as the war wages on.

Critics Reviews

View All (1) Critics Reviews
David Robinson Times (UK) Individually the episodes are engaging, but by the end it has still not taken off to become a film. Mar 28, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (2) audience reviews
Audience Member Coming of age flick for an Australian girl living outside Sydney during WWII. Miranda Otto's first movie, she was about 16 in it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Laurel and Emma are sisters, two young women who are, for a change, extremely happy exactly where they are, which is in a college town in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Their happiness is rudely ended when their mother, Anna, decides to relocate them to the spare and (to the girls) grossly uninteresting bush country of Australia. Their new school is extremely backwards and boring, and what is worse, their mother seems to have grown quite erratic, given to emotional fits and bouts of drinking. They lack the experience and imagination, perhaps, to understand the toll World War II is taking on her. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews
Emma's War

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Show Less Cast & Crew Show More Cast & Crew
View All Emma's War photos

Emma's War

Emma's War (1986) Emma's War (1986) Emma's War (1986) View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis In Australia, Emma Grange (Miranda Otto) and her younger sister are content to live their lives in a well-populated part of the Blue Mountains, but when their father (Terence Donovan) goes off to fight in World War II, their mother (Lee Remick) decides to move the family to the bush country for safety. The transition proves difficult for the sisters as they begin to blossom into womanhood, but it also takes an emotional toll on their mother, who descends into alcoholism as the war wages on.
Director
Clytie Jessop
Screenwriter
Clytie Jessop
Production Co
Belinon Productions, The Australian Film Commission, Curzon Film Distributors
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 19, 2017
Runtime
1h 32m