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Memphis Belle

1990

Michael Caton-Jones

Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney ...

6.3

3,089

War. Drama In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in the UK prepares for its 25th and final bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"I found Memphis Belle entertaining, almost in spite of my objections (...) It exploits so fully the universal human tendency to identify with a group of people who are up in an airplane and may not be able to get down again"	POS
United States	Susan Wloszczyna USA Today	"An entertaining historical account similar to the baseball scandal of Eight Men Out or the Olympic glory of Chariots of Fire"	POS
United States	Miami Herald	"It has been a while since we had a good, human movie about a war we could all agree on. In that, Memphis Belle is right on target."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Offering a romanticized view of heroism drawn from the Hollywood war epic, Memphis Belle is unashamedly commercial"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"The vigorous young cast enhances the excitement of the flight sequences, which are spectacular."	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"The fight scenes are about what you'd expect; they're competently shot, but even when they deliver thrills, every scene, every passage, is familiar. We've seen it all before"	NEU
United Kingdom	Gary Arnold Time Out	"This David Puttnam production may not be the most original movie around, but at least Caton-Jones steers through the stock situations with verve and panache"	POS

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