You don't have to have been born in 1950 - but it helps.

Rating: 10/10 (21 August 1999)

My 7 year-old daughter loved it, my 10-year old daughter told me she's too old to see it, and I'm just the right age. I was born in 1950, so I appreciated the "Maypo" TV commercial, I remember Sputnik being launched and I was one of those kids who was taught to "duck and cover" if the bomb were to drop. But the guy sitting behind me who is 7 years younger than I am (I heard him say, "Hey 1957 - that's the year I was born") laughed as hard as I did, and his wife sniffled as much as I. What a lovely movie.