Hanover Street

Starring:Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen, Richard Masur, Michael Sacks, Patsy Kensit, Max Wall, Shane Rimmer, Keith Buckley, Sherrie Hewson, Cindy O'Callaghan, Di Trevis, Suzanne Bertish, Keith Alexander, Jay Benedict, John Ratzenberger, Eric Stine, Hugh Fraser, William Hootkins
Director: Peter Hyams
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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Harrison Ford is impossibly young and handsome as an American pilot in the World War II romance Hanover Street; Lesley-Anne Down (The Great Train Robbery) is stunningly beautiful as the British nurse who falls in love with him, despite being married to British intelligence agent Christopher Plummer. In fact, everything about Hanover Street is just a little over the top, from the insanely romantic dialogue to the absurd war-buddy banter of Ford and his bomber crew to the love-making montage in which Down seems to have at least a dozen orgasms. Down and Plummer have a daughter (played by future Lethal Weapon 2 love interest Patsy Kensit) who's so precious and precocious you just want to smack her. The whole thing is almost a camp pastiche of a war romance--but when Ford and Plummer find themselves together behind enemy lines, you'll suddenly discover that you're caught up in the story. Through sheer movie-star charisma and cunningly ridiculous plot mechanics, Hanover Street becomes not only entertaining, but even touching. Plummer is particularly good as an ordinary man who wishes to become something more, Ford is stalwart as only he can be, and Down is just too lovely to resist (it's hard to understand how her career ended up with the likes of Beastmaster 3: The Eye of Braxus and Death Wish 5: The Face of Death). All in all, a surprisingly enjoyable cinematic experience. --Bret Fetzer

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One of my favorite movies.......2007-06-08

I saw this a few years ago and have been wanting to see it again--awesome plot!!

50s Retro Of The 80s Is Cheesy.......2007-04-23

In case you haven't heard `Hanover Street' 100% directed in a 50s style of Hollywood fantasy, music, acting, editing, and dialogue which by today's standards comes across as cheesy rather than nostalgic.

"Embarrassing" is a better description than horrible. Embarrassing is how to describe the way the film makers should have felt. That professional filmmakers and producers sat down and decided to direct a WWII film in 50s fashion is truly embarrassing.

The Plot: Not that bad or good, `Hanover Street' utilizes the winning WWII genre guaranteed to provide at least some entertainment. American pilot Harrison Ford falls for a married Londoner during a German air raid. (Although no exact year is given, the American involvement in the War and the occupation of France would place it between 1942 and the summer of 1944 and I'm not aware of a German bombing of London during that time.)

The love affair is meaningless. They are not in love and do not even talk enough to exchange names. All their time is spent in the bedroom, but due to the 50s retro and PG rating nothing is happing there either. The only impact it has is on Ford's skills as a B25 bomber over France, no longer the Maverick flier he is unwilling to risk his life. The only interesting thing about these bombing raids is that Ford's copilot is played by Michael Sack star of `Slaughterhouse Five' and `Sugarland Express.' One of his few films.

Danger arrives when Ford is ordered to deliver a deep cover agent, Christopher Plummer to occupied France and their B25 is shot down. Deep behind German lines Plummer must get the German illiterate Ford back to England. As the two soldiers bond Ford realizes Plummer is his lover's husband.

After 90 minutes of low production quality `Hanover Street' does provide a heart pounding well directed action packed escape from France. Unfortunately by then I was too asleep to even remember if Ford survives and I don't care. I recall that Plummer makes it back to England to reunite with his wife and rebuild their marriage.

Herald as one of Ford's few WWII films (The other being the far better `Force 10 From Navarone', `Indiana Jones' does not count since none of them took place during WWII.) `Hanover Street' has thankfully been forgotten with other 80s' 50s retro movies like `1941' and `Streets on Fire'. I don't mind retro films which focus on the time period of a recent decade but the bring back the film techniques of that decade is "embarrassing."

.........There Will Always Be an England............2007-04-09

A nostalgic look back at England [1943] during the Blitz...no one was safe...Director: Peter Hymans recreates settings like the real tenor of the times, which only adds more romance to complete romanticism in a bitter/sweet wartime affair; notwithstanding, the exciting war scenes aloft with real B-25 Mitchell bombers of the American 8th Air Force...good/bellicose acting from the Operations officer [Alec McCowan] prepping the crews before lift/off...Harrison Ford and gorgeous Lesley-Anne-Down exhibited steamy chemistry as wartime lovers and exuded, the elixir, in the art of flirtation down pat [wonderful acting]...Ms Down's face is just so exquisite/beautiful and expressive without words...good movie and it brought back 1943 like it was 1943, except for Ford's thick mane, which was not 1943....found this diamond of a DVD gem in a sale rack for $1.99...I grabbed it fast...lucky me!!....SSGT CHRIS SARNO-USMC FMF

Hanover Street.......2007-01-18

I saw the movies years ago and loved it, been looking for it in stores but could never find it. It's a real tear jerker. A real women's movies and I just love anything Harrison Ford does

One of my wifes faorite movies of all time........2007-01-18

I have not watched this movie yet,but my wife has watched time and again while I am gone, and when I get home I know she has watched it again she tells me all about the stroy and how she went thru all the emotions while watching.

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One of my favorite movies
50s Retro Of The 80s Is Cheesy
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Hanover Street
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Hanover Street [Region 2]
Starring: Harrison Ford , Lesley-Anne Down , Christopher Plummer , Alec McCowen , and Richard Masur
Director: Peter Hyams
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Customer Reviews:

One of my favorite movies.......2007-06-08

I saw this a few years ago and have been wanting to see it again--awesome plot!!

50s Retro Of The 80s Is Cheesy.......2007-04-23

.........There Will Always Be an England............2007-04-09

Hanover Street.......2007-01-18

I saw the movies years ago and loved it, been looking for it in stores but could never find it. It's a real tear jerker. A real women's movies and I just love anything Harrison Ford does

One of my wifes faorite movies of all time........2007-01-18

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kungfu punch of death and legend of the eight samurai.......2006-03-13

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