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During World War II, a Cockney woman (Anna Friel) marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.
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- Anna Friel
- Lyndon Chubbuck
- Drama
Anna Friel stars in classy wartime drama The War Bride. She plays Lily, an orphan who suddenly finds herself married, with child and living with hostile in-laws in the wilds of Canada. Thematically similar to Friel's Land Girls, this is a much more accomplished affair.
Nov 29, 2002 · In London during World War II, Lily marries a Canadian soldier who immediately goes off to war. She and her newborn daughter are invited to come and live with his family in Canada, where conditions are not as splendid as he had described, and nobody knows if and when he will return.
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- Drama, Romance
- Lyndon Chubbuck
- 2002-11-29
TOP CRITIC. If The War Bride sounds like Mills & Boon on the prairies, it's not far off that well-rutted track of sentimental romances in which moral foundation-garments give protection from...
Nov 1, 2002 · Anna Friel plays a plucky British war bride who emigrates to Canada in this nostalgic but predictable Second World War yarn.
Jan 1, 2000 · The War Bride Review. A cockney seamstress struggles to acclimatise to backwater Alberta and her dour country in-laws, after she marries Canadian serviceman Aden Young following a whirlwind...
The War Bride is a 2001 drama film directed by Lyndon Chubbuck and written by Angela Workman. It is a Canadian–British co-production. The film stars Anna Friel as Lily and Julie Cox as Sophie, two young women from London, England, who marry Canadian soldiers (Aden Young and Benjamin Boyd) during World War II, and move to Canada as war brides.
