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- 1940
- Approved
- 3 h 58 m
- 1940
- Approved
- 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.
Directed By: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
- 1940
- Approved
- 3 h 58 m
- 1940
- Approved
- 3 h 58 m
Gone with the Wind
8.2
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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.
Directed By: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
97
94% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
97
94% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh create their own sizzle as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara in a lavish four-hour epic that juxtaposes scenes of jaw-dropping majesty – that aerial shot of the Confederates’ wounded, for example – with moments of elegant intimacy and playful verbal jousting.
To quote Olivia de Havilland, "Everytime I see it, I find something fresh, some shade of meaning I hadn't noticed before."
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 269 User Ratings
8.2
82% Positive
221 Ratings
221 Ratings
10% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
8% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 269 User Ratings
8.2
82% Positive
221 Ratings
221 Ratings
10% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
8% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
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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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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Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want it.
Some elements seem grotesquely dated, but this restoration of the 1939 classic finds the film as powerful and mad as ever.
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."
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.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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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 Approved
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
