THE LAND GIRLS (1998)

DAVID LELAND

Drama 1940s Literary Classics Trains, Planes & Boats Women on Film War Coming of Age

Cast

ANNA FRIEL RACHEL WEISZ CATHERINE MCCORMACK STEVEN MACKINTOSH TOM GEORGESON MAUREEN O'BRIEN LUCY AKHURST

Plot

Mismatched city girl trio Stella, Ag and Prue (one sensible, one shy, one saucy) head for Devon to be "land girls" - working the fields while the boys go off to fight WW2. Needless to say, the uncommonly attractive sophisticats cause quite a stir down on the farm, not least in wannabe pilot Steven Mackintosh's trousers. The war itself seems almost incidental in this "growing-up" movie which, though somewhat uneventful, all looks very pretty.