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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 21529
Released: July 13, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.44 |
| Used Price: $7.08 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From the gifted pen of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies) comes a touching trilogy of American tales set in early 20th Century Texas. At the height of World War I, Elizabeth and her husband face hard times when her previously disapproving father steps in to take care of her children so her beloved can go off to war. Matthew Broderick heads a powerhouse cast in this remarkable drama, whose characters were further explored in two subsequent films.
1918 Reviews:
Effect of 1918 flu epidemic on a family 
2009-11-30 - This story follows a family during the year 1918 at the ending of World War I and through the flu epidemic that swept the world that year. This story follows the same family portrayed in "Courtship" and "On Valentine's Day". All three stories are by the same author, Horton Foote, and are based on his plays.
1918 DVD 
2009-06-04 - I purchased this DVD, thinking it may have much info regarding the 1918 flu pandemic. It doesn't - just briefly alluded to. But, an interesting glimpse into this very interesting era.
Hoped would be more indepth about actual patient care 
2009-02-17 - This movied arrived on time and was well packaged. I wished it was more indepth on the actual care of the patients of the flu. I like watching movies of this time period though.
And you know for sure which grave is my Father's??
2007-05-19 - Horton Foote is a playwright and screenwriter of the gentlest, most powerful kind. His beginnings in small town Texas has informed most all of his writing ever since. He has written for broadway, live television and hollywood. He wrote the amazing screenplay for "To Kill A Mockingbird" based on Harper Lee's book. He wrote the films "Tender Mercies" and "Trip to Bountiful" (based on his play) He's won the Pultzer Prize for his play "Young Man From Atlanta" (1995). Many of his plays have ended up on video/dvd and "1918" is one of them.
There is a series of plays written by Mr. Foote called "The Orphan's Home Cycle". Nine terrific plays, gentle and rewarding individually...put them together and you have a gorgeous epic that spans decades. The plays follow a boy named Horace from childhood to adulthood.
The middle three plays of this cycle are: "Courtship", "Valentine's Day" and "1918" and are all on DVD and available on Amazon.
"1918" takes place in a small Texas town during the outbreak of the infamous influenzia epidemic and the comings and goings of soldiers during World War I. It picks up a short time after "On Valentine's Day" ends. Elizabeth and Horace have a child and the family is reunited. But as the sickness of the epidemic and the insidious mutilations of the war casulties all come closer to the their doorstep, Horace is faced with decisions beyond his grasp. Trying to come to terms with his "orphan" status and new family. The delicate way the subjects of love, danger, security and family roam in and out of the dialouge is very moving.
"1918" stands alone as an amazing timepiece. Put the film together as the finale with the previous chapters: "Courtship" and "On Valentine's Day" and you have an amazing statement of life in small town America from 1915 to World War I. You have a dramatic poem about love and endurance. You also have an important document of Amercan theater by having a record of this great playwright's work come to life.
The same wonderful cast is in all three films, offering great continuity of performance and sparse, tender storytelling.
Courtship, On Valentine's Day,
The Trip to Bountiful, Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood
1918
2007-01-03 - Quite a nice period piece, somber in many aspects, but all in all an intelligent movie.
