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      Emma's War

      1986 1h 32m Drama List
      Reviews 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. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      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

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      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 Post a rating

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      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
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