Great Movie

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2003)

It's a pleasure to live in a world where The Best Years of Our Lives could be created. It contains several of the most memorable moments in film history, first rate performances by virtually the whole cast, one of the great scores in movie history, and a story that perfectly reflects the post war years. The atmosphere is achingly real, of the hope and emptiness and uncertainties, of the difference in generations and experiences, and of the changes in the United States. The Best Years of Our Lives presents the Post War Era and its personages so intimately that you feel something for every one of the characters. This is, obviously, one of my favorites and I recommend it as highly as any movie ever made.