Vanessa Williams Movie:

				Salesrank: 208906
		Used Price: $30.00
		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Yanks [Region 2] Reviews:
Half a Great Film Anyway
2008-09-27 - For the first hour it brims with great scripting, editing, and camera work. By the end you find yourself wishing they'd just go AWOL and catch a ride back to the states. If you want to stay riveted to your seat you simply can't go wrong with Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy". Never could say much for most British film makers, but many of them have made really crackerjack films about us yanks!

Gem of a movie
2008-01-14 - I'm one of those people that believe this movie is a gem and really overlooked as a great war movie. Granted, the only time you see shooting is when they are training (with live ammo) for D-Day. But it's a great insight into what life was like not only for the American troops but also for the British citizens when hundreds of thousands soldiers suddenly arrived in Britain. Excellent characters just keep popping up, maybe for a scene or two, but you don't forget them (particularly the mourning father in the pub).

Great little love stories, too. Richard Geer gives an outstanding performance as a man who struggles -- does he really want to go full throttle with a girl when he may soon die in combat, and she's already lost her fiance to the War? William Devane also shines as the Army officer whose spends quite a bit of time with the very-married "donut dolly." The other performance that stands out is Rachel Roberts, who is so not happy to see her daughter cavorting with a Yank.

The final scenes are heartbreaking. The woman breaking through the MPs to hug her loved just one more time. Watching those Soldiers board the train, watched it again last week and still got choked up. Just like in real life, how many were truly saying goodbye?

Yanks -- getting the facts right
2007-08-01 - I first watched this movie because we were going over to the towns where it was filmed in the UK. Once a year they have a "Yanks event". They have a convoy and everyone dresses up like the 1940's and they dance and recreate some of the scenes in the movie, like when the inn keeper empties the chamber pot out of the window.
The reason that I'm writing this is that the "nuclear power towers" that another reviewer complained about are not nuclear. They were cooling towers from the 1930's and have now been pulled down. They were actually there during the 40's and there was nothing nuclear about them. I know because I asked the local people who live there. Great movie!

Yanks Review
2006-08-07 - A fine WW2 story of our troops awaiting the Normandy invasion in a small English town --
Excellant for adults who remember those times, the "Little darlings" wouldn't understand it.

Fine Film
2006-01-16 - A fine film that rings true in its detailed depiction of American soldiers in Britain during wartime. The casting of Richard Gere is a weak link, but the other performers compensate for his narcissistic posing. My DVD from Amazon presented many frustrations, with the screen continually freezing and this was the first viewing of a new disc!).