Military Wives

Name: Military Wives
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical
Released: May 22, 2020
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Amy James-Kelly, Charlie Hiscock, Colin Mace, Davina Sitaram, Emma Lowndes

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Bleecker Street | Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: Amy James-Kelly, Charlie Hiscock, Colin Mace, Davina Sitaram, Emma Lowndes, Gaby French, Greg Wise, India Ria Amarteifio, Jason Flemyng, Karen Sampford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lara Rossi, Laura Checkley, Robert Whitelock, Sharon Horgan, Sophie Dix

Summary: Military Wives centers on a group of women from different backgrounds whose partners are away serving in Afghanistan. Faced with their loved ones’ absences, they come together to form the very first military wives choir, helping each other through some of life’s most difficult moments, and quickly find themselves on an international stage.

Director: Peter Cattaneo

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Musical

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 112 min

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The Telegraph Ed Power

Mar 3, 2020

In a classic Brit-com flanking manoeuvre, the film tries to simultaneously reduce the viewer to tears while inviting us to bask in the fuzzy glow of our friends and neighbours’s innate decency. Luckily it succeeds, thanks in no small part to the commitment shown by Horgan and Scott Thomas. Read full review

Richard Roeper

May 20, 2020

Even though there’s a tragic offscreen death and a devastatingly brutal confrontation scene between the two leads, Military Wives is like that one friend of yours who’s always in a good mood and is forever lifting everyone’s spirits, even at somber occasions and during the toughest of times. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Sep 13, 2019

You are well aware of the shameless manipulation and can second-guess exactly where it is going and yet resistance is futile. It tugs at the heartstrings with such determination and sincerity that there may not be a dry eye in the cinema. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Sep 13, 2019

If you’ve seen even one based-on-a-true-story British misfit hobbyists movie, you already know the tune. Read full review

Peter Travers

May 22, 2020

In these times of pandemic isolation it’s no crime to look for the film equivalent of comfort food. Military Wives, though deeply reliant on formula and wrapped in a blanket of bland, fits the bill. Read full review

Barry Hertz

May 21, 2020

It’s the type of film that was birthed with 1997′s "The Full Monty," which shares a director with Military Wives in Peter Cattaneo – as well as a flat, incurious sensibility that lacks any hint of complexity in the layers of its world or the inner lives of its characters. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mar 5, 2020

Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan saddled with a by-the-numbers script in a well-meaning but hackneyed Brit flick. Read full review

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