Mrs. Miniver

I remember liking this a whole lot more when I first saw it more than fifteen years ago. I hadn’t thought of the film much over the ensuing years, and revisiting it as an older man, I see some of what I adored of the film at the time. However, I also see a weird melding of two different plot threads with very different tones and thematic focuses. I think there’s a clash that undermines the film a bit. On the other hand, the portrait of the quiet toughness of the British middle class is so en...