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Name: Yanks
Released: 1979-1-1
Cast: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Chick Vennera

Yanks

R
2h 18m
1979

57%

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Academy Award® winner Vanessa Redgrave (Julia) and Richard Gere (Arbitrage) light up the screen in this captivating drama that follows American GIs in Britain during the second World War. From 1942 until D-Day, millions of U.S. soldiers landed in the United Kingdom on their way to combat on the European front. Though resented by many war-weary locals, these far-from-home “Yanks” found company, friendship and sometimes even love with lonely English women. Based on the screenplay by Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein, Directed by Oscar® winner John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) and co-starring William Devane (TV’s Revenge), this timeless film is beloved by audiences and praised by critics who call it “extraordinary” (The Wall Street Journal).

Director:

John Schlesinger

Producer:

Joseph Janni, Lester Persky

Writer:

Colin Welland, Walter Bernstein

Cast:

Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Chick Vennera, John Ratzenberger

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

57%

Reviews

New York Times

Vincent Canby

It's soft, sort of spongy and so bland that you may well remember the scenery better than anything that happens in front of it.

Yanks remains an unusually appealing and ingratiating movie.

Director John Schlesinger has done a beautiful job with both cast and craft in Yanks, a multiple love story set in England in World War II. Yet little that's exciting ever happens in the picture.

Yanks is so much better than I expected that I hope I don't overrate it.

Yanks has a richness to it in both its technical and its human elements. Many of the episodes shine with emotional clarity and understanding, and they all reflect the sheen of Schlesinger's craft.

April 17, 2020

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