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Title: The Minivers Go To Pot
Review: After the staggering success of the original Mrs. Miniver, a simple but profoundly moving story of home life in a small English village during World War II, M.G.M. Studios reunited the cast for yet another look into the lives of this most English of English families.Unfortunately, it seems that the entire Miniver family went completely to pot, if not to hell in a handbasket, in the interim. Given an eight-rate script which focuses on a mawkish love triangle, even the actors seem slightly embarrassed, and the Miniver family rapidly descends into tedious soap opera. Unlike the the original film, they are no longer people we can admire or a family we particularly want to know. Two stars only, one for the efforts of a talented cast, one for the usual excellent M.G.M. production values.
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