The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year!

⭐ 7.8/10 Dec 25, 1946 2h 51m

Overview

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

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Reviews

Andres Gomez

⭐ 8/10

Another great Willy Wyler movie. The story, with time, is quite expectable but the characters are well defined and developed by the cast. Also, it is a good (and probably, too positive) review of the after WWII war lives of the US veterans. A must to be seen.

Apr 16, 2015

CinemaSerf

⭐ 7/10

This is really quite a touching story, recounting the experiences of three American veterans of WWII who return home and have to adapt to their new, not always welcoming, circumstances. Frederic March is "Al" who returns to a senior position in a bank - responsible for helping other returning soldiers with loans to start to get their lives back together; "Fred" (Dana Andrews) returns to a far less optimistic outlook, ending up working for peanuts selling perfume in a drug sto...

Jul 07, 2022