is it just me or does margaret look old enough to be harrison ford's mom in the movie? i know she's allegedly younger than him, but, jesus, she looks 45. and she was really annoying. she wasn't funny at all. any time she tried to make a joke, it just came off as weird. i have no idea why harrison ford's character liked her so much. the scenes near the end without her in them (the ones with harrison and her husband) were the best parts of the movie.
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Although I liked some aspects of this film, it was just....awkward. Funny that the most awkward scenes in the film were the love scenes. Harrison was dating Leslie during this movie, too. Which makes it that much stranger.....
How DARE you kiss me?!?!
I don't like fast women....
and I HATE arrogant men.....
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I don't know what movie you were watching, but Leslie Anne-Downe does not look 45. Bad acting. Yes. Predictable plot. Definitely. But no way she passes for Harrison Ford's mother.
sharei've been watching hanover street, and yeah, she looks like an older lady. i know many a mother who look her age.
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Here's my take... Hyams almost always films in natural light. You've either got to have reflective skin, stand out in some way, or go heavy on the makeup. They went heavy on the make-up, I mean seriously, she looks like a racoon.
shareMiss Down was born in 1954. The movie was filmed in 1979. That would make her 25.
Harrison Ford was born in 1942. In 1979 he would have been 37!!!!
He was playing a role where he was 12 years older than the leading lady.
While this is not unusual at all, it is intersting to note that the daughter in the movie was about 11, so I guess Down's character gave birth at 14?
The worst aspect is that NO 1st lieutenant pilot in 1942 WWII would have been 37 years old!!! The average age of pilots was about 20-21.
A 37 year old would have been a colonel or a major most likely.
P.S. Christopher Plummer (the husband, keep in mind this film condones adultery, and with the husband still at home to boot!) was born in 1929. He was 50 when the movie was made! Twice the age of his wife.
I was quite interested in all the birthdates. Also, someone commented that Leslie Anne Down and Harrison Ford were dating in real life, but their on screen chemistry didn't impress me. The film didn't delve much into the development of their relationship. Christopher Plummer is of course much older. It's implied that he's all very dull while Ford plays the younger, dashing lover. Personally, I found Plummer quite appealing and liked the ending.
shareI too thought that Leslie-Anne Down looked older or more mature than Harrison Ford, even though I knew that she was not. I also felt the same way about her in North and South, with Patrick Swayze. I do not think that make-up was bad, nor lighting. I just believe that she has a more mature look about her. She has always looked older - NOT OLD. What a beautiful lady!
shareThe movie itslf was pretty entertaining, but the only thing that was sort of lame was the way Harrison Fords plane was shot down. I think the "special effects" could have been a lot better. Overall the film wasn't too bad.
shareIt must be just you etphonehomeyo, as I never thought she looked older than him at all, and certainly not 45. It's never revealed in the movie, but I think she was about 28, her husband was in his late 30s, their daughter was 8, and Harrison Ford's character was about 30. But I had never heard of this movie until early 1983, right after we got our first VCR and joined our first video store (which my mother ordered a VHS copy of it from). She did this because she was a big Harrison Ford fan, and she and my sister watched it a few times then, and I then watched it. They only liked it a little bit, but I immidiently liked it alot, and often watched it later in the 1980s and early 1990s. It got on my 100 favorite movies of all time list, and is the only World War II movie to be on it. That is somewhat suprising, since from 1981 on I have been a huge WWII buff (though I have always preferred the historical and documentary things on it to movies about it-that probably explains this). But I really liked the overall story, the scenes between them, and all the war related scenes. I also thought the mission scenes after he and her husband meet are very exciting, and the ending was very touching. I hope to see this movie again soon if it is out on DVD, and look foward to it.
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It's not just you. I thought they definately could have gotten someone more attractive than her to play the female lead. She was not a good actress and I didn't even like her in North and South. She had way too much smudged eye makeup on in this movie. The on screen chemestry just was not there!
shareI didn't like her make up very much, but wasnt it just keeping in with the times? She didn't look OLD though, i thought she still looked very pretty. I didnt think her acting was that bad either, but she was fab in north & south!
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she was looking her age - a mother, and a wife to a senior guy. if she could have acted her part, it would have been ok.
usually in a movie,there's atleast 1 scene, in which an actor scores, but sadly in this movie the character Margaret is just awful. her dialogue is awful. her makeup is awful. her acting is awful. everything about her is awful. when her face is still as a stone, she doesn't look too old to be ford's love interest, but any expression on her face comes across as making her a little bit too old. which wudn't have mattered if she could have just ACTED.
her opening scene, while different for 1 sec, gets irritating the 2nd time she jumps the Q. and the holding her stomach & saying 'o my baby' trick is too nasty a trick to be played when she is the 1 who is in the wrong!!! while trying to outsmart eachother is a interesting way for 2 people to meet, there needs to be something to make them fall for eachother. there was nothing between them. no chemistry. no common anything. what the heck does ford's character see in her? does he fall for her beauty? and wat the heck does margaret's character see in ford ?
harrison ford is not abrasive in this movie. he is not too bad. though in the final scene where he says he loves her but has to leave her,he is just plain awful. it doesn't look like he is 1 bit serious or pained. he delivers the lines in a mocking sort of way.
plummer is marvellous in most of the scenes, except for 1 or 2 scenes, in which he is good. :). but the scene where he calls her to tell her that he knows he isn't dashing, etc, etc : eventhough plummer pulls it off convincingly enough, it should have been avoided.
Richard Masur's scenes were hilarious and thoroughly enjoyable. :). full marks for him.
in this romantic film, all the scenes which do not focus on the romance part are very good while all the scenes that focus on the romance part are irritating.