One of the best and most moving films I have seen for many years.

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2005)

Just looking at the characters and listening to the way they talk gives me a feeling, that the director was really trying to create an image of authenticity about the film. The way they look at each other, the way they talk to each other infers something very natural in the whole process. An excellent and brilliantly produced film which transmits a "feeling" otherwise missing in most films today. My daughter, who had first read the book, assures me, that the film is really VERY good in comparison! An attribute which one seldom hears! The film created an atmosphere of reality, transferring us back into the 1940's at the beginning, moving us on to the 50's after the war up into the (almost) present day during the narrations of the wonderful James Garner.