The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946)
★ 7.7 IMDb · 764 votes
Year: 1946
Runtime: 172 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Уильям Уайлер
Cast: Дэна Эндрюс, Fredric March, Harold Russell, Teresa Wright, Мирна Лой, Cathy O'Donnell, Virginia Mayo, Хоги Кармайкл, Глэдис Джордж, Roman Bohnen
Plot
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.
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having lost both hands in a demolition training accident during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings are still those of love and not pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home.