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THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
February 5, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1946 movie won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director (William Wyler), Actor (Fredric March) and Supporting Actor (Harold Russell, a real-life war veteran who, like his character, lost both hands in a wartime explosion). Few postwar movies during this period took this serious, balanced and thoughtful a look at the problems of veterans returning to civilian life. It’s as potent now as it was then.

 
 
 
 
 
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