Run the Wild Fields (2000), Since You Went Away (1944), Dear Ruth (1947), The Human Comedy (1943), The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942), A Medal for Benny (1945), The Land Girls (1998), Pin Up Girl (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Home Front movies.
Storyline: Ruby Miller (Joanne Whalley) has put her life on hold. Her husband, after leaving to fight in World War II, has been missing in action for years. Ruby tends their North Carolina farm and rears their daughter, Pug (Alexa Vega), but cannot bring herself to think about the future. One day a drifter named Tom Walker (Sean Patrick Flanery) arrives in town. Ruby hires him to do some odd jobs around the farm, but he gradually assumes a much more vital role for her and her daughter.
Plot Keywords: housewife, drifter, daughter, neighbor, father figure, husband, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: housewife, daughter, young woman, lodger, soldier, maid, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A normal day in the Wilkins family: reticent beauty Ruth, crusty judge father, petition-happy political activist teen Miriam. Who should show up but Ruth's soldier pen pal Bill Seacroft...whom she doesn't know about. It seems Miriam used her sister's name and picture to build up wartime morale. Ruth reluctantly agrees to "humor" Bill for his 2-day leave, though she's just become engaged to her stuffy suitor Albert. Can Miriam's cloud castle last the weekend without crashing to earth?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: soldier, young woman, sister, fiancé, father, mother, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Homer Macauley remains in a small town looking after his widowed mother and younger brother while his older brother is fighting the war in Europe.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young boy, young girl, boss, man, woman, brother, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.
Plot Keywords: wealthy woman, romantic interest, son, daughter, best friend, mother, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
Plot Keywords: father, fiancée, swindler, mayor, son, townsperson, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While British men are fighting World War II, three female volunteers (Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel) labor on an elderly man's farm.
Plot Keywords: college graduate, hairdresser, young woman, naval officer, farmer, son, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: singer, best friend, war hero, friend, club owner, entertainer, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The two lovers are living together and are not married as they hesitantly explain to her brother. They had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait." It's an important plot point as it drives Cooper's actions when he discovers that Crawford and Young are living in sin.—Brian Black
Plot Keywords: aristocrat, neighbor, brother, soldier, american, pilot, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the way to work, five defence workers contemplate their pasts and their own reasons for working.
Plot Keywords: resistance fighter, race car driver, beauty pageant contestant, lawyer, warden, coworker, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sailor (Van Johnson) from a rich family meets a nightclub-singing sister act (June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven) in wartime New York.
Plot Keywords: singer, sister, wealthy man, sailor, vaudevillian, amusing, spectacular ...
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