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I saw this excellent movie for the first time the other night on TCM. However, I was startled by the similarity of the "flower show" subplot to a subplot in the recent PBS/BBC Masterpiece Theater production of "Downton Abbey." FLAHAM ( talk) 00:19, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
"And loses her daughter-in-law as a casualty" is a spoiler, since it happens very near the end of the film. I think someone should either remove it or change it to say something else. Lionboy-Renae ( talk) 04:58, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
The statement in the lead section that the film is "based on" the book of the same name by Jan Struther is misleading. The book, to explain to anyone who has not read it, is a series of anecdotal essays which reads like a diary, full of lively interactions between family and friends, and reflections on how life was for them all at that time, the year before the outbreak of World War II. According to the information on the back cover, the book is a compendium of the series of essays published as a column by "Mrs Miniver" in The Times before the War. Yes, in the book there is shown the shadows of danger, mild experience of shortages, and gas masks, the word JEWS significant on a newspaper board, but the reality of the air-raids and the fighter planes and Dunkirk and personal loss, none of that had arrived and does not appear in the book. However, Valerie Grove, in her introduction to Mrs Miniver explains that Jan Struther, when she was in America, did help in the film. The screenplay does not follow any narrative in the book: it (almost) the same family, the screenplay rather continues as a sequel to where the book ended. A small change to the lead section will correct the impression it gives, and I shall try to think of something unless someone else can. Thank you. P0mbal ( talk) 22:46, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved as discussed, though Mrs. Miniver will be oved to Mrs. Miniver (character). Primefac ( talk) 16:18, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
– The film won the Best Picture Academy Award and has continued in culture and public consciousness as one of the best-remembered films of its era. The book (or, more precisely, the series of essays — see directly above — "How much is the film based on the book by Jan Struther?") was popular during the war, but has not remained in print and is little known in the 21st century. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 20:43, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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