Stars: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin

Director: Richard Attenborough

Summary: A nurse and wounded soldier, Ernest Hemingway, find time for romance in war-torn Europe. The romance which inspired Hemingway to write 'A Farewell To Arms'.

In this period romance based on Agnes von Kurowsky's diary account of her brief liaison with a young Ernest Hemingway, the future novelist is injured while working for the Red Cross in Italy in WWI. Upon entering the hospital, the brash American falls in love with Agnes, his saintly nurse, and vows to make her love him in return. Adapted from the 1989 novel, "Hemingway in Love and War," the film chronicles the events upon which Hemingway based his own novel, the 1929 masterpiece "A Farewell to Arms."

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This disastrous 1996 film by Sir Richard Attenborough was meant to be part of his informal series of movies about great men, including Gandhi, Chaplin, Cry Freedom(the Steven Biko story) and Shadowlands(CS Lewis). In Love and Waris a recounting of young Ernest Hemingway's World War I love affair with Red Cross nurse Agnes von Kurowsky, who was eight years older than he and who became the basis for the Catherine Barkley character in A Farewell to Arms. O'Donnell is terrible, in a word, and Bullock mostly seems out of sorts when playing someone real. Except for the scene in which Hemingway is introduced, fearlessly making his way to a trench under heavy bombardment, you have no idea that this person O'Donnell "portrays" will eventually change the direction of American literature. For a much better experience, look toward Attenborough's previous works. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer, Making Of
Year:	1996
Release Date:	March 20, 2000
Runtime:	108 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	E D V 9079
Keywords:	Love, War, General, Romantic, Drama
Genre:	Drama