Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

jvdesuit1 I enjoyed this movie and it moved me a lot. May be I'm too sentimental and romantic. I think what this movie shows perfectly is this over excitement of all those guys who know that this could be their last days of joy and amusement.D-Day is near, they know although the date is still a secret. They know that when they'll cross the channel many will loose their lives only a few minutes after they landed.That's what is the film about. Those guys when they go back in their barracks would probably have nightmares, what do we know of what was going in their heads, they were lonely and needed something to overcome their fears. Some were reckless, others found happiness and kindness far from their home and families.The cast is excellent and Gere and his comrade are excellent and so true in their acting.Yes a great movie.

colingilbertwinlatonmill Just watched this film again for at least the tenth time since it's release and never fail to be impressed by the accuracy of its portrayal of Northern England. In fact this is the England I growing up in in the 1960s and it really only started to change around the 1970s when we finally seemed to recover from post war austerity. Shops looked like that when I was a kid in suburbs of Newcastle. Several people mention the power station mistakenly suggesting it was out of place as it was nuclear. Most power stations in the UK are coal powered and still look exactly like this and as the film was made in and around Stalybridge and the pennine towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire it may well have been Stalybridge which was built in 1926 and definitely never a nuclear plant. Lovely film and exactly as wartime was described in countless family discussions with our mams and dads. This was often the only adventure in their lives so it came up over and over again.

ianlouisiana Back in his old stamping ground of Northern England,Mr Schlesinger reverts to what he knows best - the portrayal of working - class English people,bloody - minded,loyal,funny,kind,often angry and raging at the machine. Yes "Yanks" is ostensibly about the impact on a small English town of large numbers of American soldiers prior to the invasion of Europe in 1944,but it is the native population who make the greatest impression on the viewer. All the more ironic then that the female lead,Miss Eichhorn should be an American,albeit one with a totally convincing accent...far more so than many who grace our TV screens and seem to think that a RADA all - purpose "Northern" is anything more than derisory and even insulting. Mr.Gere has a boyish charm as an army baker(possibly the least warlike job in the military)who falls for Miss Eichhorn despite her being seriously involved with a long - term boyfriend presently in the British Army(the splendid Mr Thompson). Scacely surprisingly this does not meet with the approval of the girl's mother(the tragic Miss Roberts)and much of the tension of "Yanks" is in the conflict between mother and daughter. Much less convincing is the middle - class romance between Miss Redgrave and Mr Devane which lacks ion(although not lust) and neither character is in any way lifelike. The film was not much liked on its release in 1979,but distance has led to a certain enchantment as the period fades further into history and the fashion amongst certain British classes to affect disdain for Americans in general and the American military in particular has grown in inverse proportion to the average Brits dogged determination to,perhaps grudgingly like the outgoing,generous,amiable,and well - meaning Yanks.As in 1944 so in 2013. There is not so much love about that we can afford to discard it. That was the message of "A kind of loving" set in peacetime England,and it is the message of "Yanks",set in a time of hatred.

jehaccess6 I purchased the DVD because it covered a period of history fascinating to me. The fact that it starred Richard Gere was incidental. In the week since I first viewed the film, I have watched it about ten more times. I just couldn't get enough of Lisa Eichhorn. The other players also gave outstanding performances, even Richard Gere!Strangely, the part of the film I find most gripping is the closing credits where they flash still pictures of the cast in group scenes. I didn't understand why this should be so at first, then I realized that the film created such a realistic family atmosphere that I wanted these film relationships to be real. It was like opening the family photo album to renew mental images of beloved relatives, since departed.This film resonates for me because I have been in the shoes of Matt and Danny. A young serviceman overseas and desperately lonely for my family. In the film, the fact that the local people speak a language close enough to American English to allow communication is a huge bonus. The fact that some of these troops are stationed in England for close to 3 years and have no hope of returning to the United States leads to the strong tendency to build a life in the local area. The men start to build a family relationship to the local people they are most in with. Later arrivals tend to get included in the gradual merger of the two parallel societies in such close .It occurred to me that the bizarre set of social conditions portrayed in the film, never to be repeated, would be a unique opportunity for sociologists to study the relationships established in these garrison towns.Colin Welland wrote the screenplay from the British point of view. The fact that he treated the Americans so favorably spoke well of the image of these men several decades after their departure. He was perceptive in outlining the mutual bewilderment of the two sides on their first encounter. The fact that good relations developed over the months was a testament to the upstanding character prevalent on both sides.The film score was superb! It really enhanced the film scenes and drew you into the flow of the story. I have replayed many scenes of the film because I so enjoyed the musical score. The tune played during the closing credits is my ultimate favorite. I never tire of watching this wonderful film.The scene where Ken, the British Beau of the Lisa Eichhorn character Jean Moreton returned on leave was very poignant. The two were supposed to become engaged at this time and did so. I missed the significance of their engagement party at first, since it was never explicitly declared as such in the film. Ken departs back to the war in Burma after two week's leave and Matt and Jean take up as before. Jean is only slightly inhibited in her relationship with Matt after her engagement to Ken. Jean's affections were clearly gravitating more and more toward Matt. It is clear Jean only went through with the engagement to keep peace in her family. Jean's gravely ill mother strongly ed her engagement to Ken and she did not want a fight to develop at such a sensitive moment.The scene of the 1944 New Year's Dance was the most emotional point of the film. Everyone there knew that the prospective invasion of the continent would soon be coming. The soldiers knew that it was quite likely they would not survive the year. All the girls and other local friends who had come to love these men knew it too. Under such conditions, men and women tend to try to cram lifetimes of experiences into weeks.The racial outrage that developed at the dance was difficult to watch. The screenplay showed the British Girls displaying remarkably benevolent attitudes toward the Black troops. I have no idea if this was a realistic portrayal of British racial policies of that period. If this film was accurate, America was far behind Britain in this department.Matt and Danny were condemned by the British Girls for their ive acceptance of a near lynching. Matt and Danny couldn't see anything remarkable in their attitudes. The mutual incomprehension of the two sides was very nearly complete. The two couples managed to overcome their problems and restore the strained relationships.It struck me as odd that the name of the town where all these events occurred was never mentioned. I suppose that the screenplay envisioned a generic town in Northern England as a stand-in for all the towns who faced this peaceful invasion.As other comments have noted, the cooling towers for a nuclear power plant are prominent in the background of several scenes in the film. These power plants certainly never existed in 1943 England! I imagine that the film makers hoped we would overlook this glaring inconsistency.The final scenes of the film had the troops boarding trains to be transported to their invasion embarkation points. A large portion of the young female population was there to tearfully see them off. It struck me that the local people had embraced these young men and were anguished to see them depart to possible death. It was like losing half their community to the war. The deserted streets in the town as the troops prepare for departure must have been unnerving to the town folk. I am sure that many of the troops were equally heartbroken to lose with dear friends and lovers. The horror of war really sank in from that scene.This film is a real gem. I am astonished it is not more prominent when great films are mentioned. This is one of the few films I ever felt worthy of a 10 star rating.