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- 1940
- Passed
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 3 h 58 m
- 1940
- Passed
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 3 h 58 m
Summary A Southern belle struggles with the devastation of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This classic won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
- 1940
- Passed
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 3 h 58 m
- 1940
- Passed
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 3 h 58 m
Gone with the Wind
8.1
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Summary A Southern belle struggles with the devastation of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This classic won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
97
95% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
97
95% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Clear an evening and indulge yourself in one of the few films that can justifiably be called an epic.
The picture is real, full of vitality and of so much human waywardness and nobility of spirit that it tears your heart out in sympathy with its tender and tragic passages and makes you want to shout with joy at its hearty humor.
By Kate Cameron
FULL REVIEW
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 272 User Ratings
8.1
81% Positive
220 Ratings
220 Ratings
11% Mixed
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
8% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 272 User Ratings
8.1
81% Positive
220 Ratings
220 Ratings
11% Mixed
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
8% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
A beautiful tale of an unlikable, privileged and self absorbed young woman, who, through hardship and loss, learns valuable lessons and comes to look at life in a new way.
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A classic and you need to shut up about it being bad because i think slavery was one of the worst things ever, but history is to teach us to make a better future, so we dont repeat the same mistakes. The movie is highest grossing inflation adjusted movie ever at around 3.5 billion dollars. Great story!
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Is it the greatest motion picture ever made? Probably not, although it is the greatest motion mural we have seen and the most ambitious film-making venture in Hollywood's spectacular history.
To see Gone With the Wind on a big screen again is to weep for the fearlessness with which Hollywood once believed the sublime was possible.
Well, even if it is essentially four hours about a selfish, silly cow, it's impeccably well made, and should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in romance or movies.
Overblown and melodramatic, it somehow achieves more than the schmaltz of its parts, thanks to a spirited modern heroine, the spoilt Scarlett O'Hara, and its refusal to give us the neat conclusions you'd expect from a 19th-century saga of "cottonfields and cavaliers."
By Serena Davies
FULL REVIEW
Rather than confront the guilt related to the sins of the past it paints over them in vivid colours, hoping the viewer will collude in its melodramatic muddying of the water.
8 Academy Awards totally deserved I think this movie is one of the most beautiful, wish there are more movies like this now!
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While it's quite easy to watch for a four hour film, the plot and the acting aren't exception. This film actually isn't that well rated by modern reviewers.
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5 for the cinematography, but that's it. Even as a white guy, I could care less about a privileged white woman moping about how her future is gone because of the Civil War. There's a certain amount of worship for the good ole days here and I don't care for it. It's a dark time in American History that is far better told in documentary form, exposing the brutality of the Antebellum South rather than glorifying its culture. People that like this movie probably fight to keep the Confederate Flag in their states and those statues standing.
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Technically proficient and has a wonderful main score. It's issues are well noted (mainly blatant and one note racism) and its characters insufferable, particularly the lead, who is a real drag for 4 hours.
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An apology for one of the most pernicious myths in American history--the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Includes some scenes and characters almost as morally perverse as D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" but without the virtues of that film's cinematic innovations.
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Production Company
Selznick International Pictures,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release Date Jan 17, 1940
Duration 3 h 58 m
Rating Passed
Tagline For the thousands who remember its unparalleled drama, action and romance! For the new thousands to whom the wonders will be revealed for the first time! Breathtaking spectacle, inspired acting by the greatest cast ever assembled! The screen's most exciting love story! The most-talked about picture ever made! [reissue]
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 10 Wins & 15 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations