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Plot

Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays a worker in a defense plant who lives in an all-female rooming house. Shy and sheltered, Roc loses some of her inhibitions when she falls in love with an airman (Gordon Jackson). After they marry, he is killed in battle. Roc's coworkers and friends rally round her, giving her the strength to persevere. Millions Like Us attempts to show the temporary breakdown of the British class structure during the war, with everyone--highborn to low--pitching in, working together, and bolstering one another's morale. That the old social system would inevitably resume after the war wasn't important to British movie fans, who lined up in droves to see Millions Like Us.
MPAA Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Genre(s):
Drama,Romance,War
Run Time:
103min.
Theatrical Release Date:
04/24/2006
Distributor(s):
General Film Corporation
Director(s):
Sidney Gilliat , Frank Launder
Starring:
Eric Portman , Patricia Roc , Gordon Jackson , Anne Crawford , Basil Radford
Themes:
Life on the Homefront,Women During Wartime
Tone:
Atmospheric,Earnest,Forceful,Rousing,Tense
Keywords:
death,employment,factory-worker,home-front,love,marriage,social-classes,war,woman
Language:
English