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The Fighting Sullivans
Average Customer Review : 5.0/5 based on 61 reviews
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Spotlight Reviews
good background (2008-10-09)
Customer Review : 3
I saw this movie when I was a kid of course and now that I teach US History was hoping that it might work in place of the ever popular Saving Private Ryan. The movie is all about the background of the boys, how they grew up, the relationship they had as brothers, their fighting spirit and how they tried to make sure they stayed together in the military (in this case the Navy) during the war. I have to be honest, since I was looking at this film for use in my class I was hoping for more story of them on the ship but that part takes all of about 10 minutes. But as far as good old movies go - this is a delight.
Great Movie (2008-07-03)
Customer Review : 5
Saw this movie many many years ago, all i can say is, if you have never seen it, you really got watch it at lease once..
War propaganda ages very fast (2008-02-19)
Customer Review : 4
One little war propaganda film that has a certain charm. The charm comes from the five brothers that can never do anything separately. By insisting on being the five of them on the same ship they were all killed at the same time. That is no heroism in itself. That is just slightly sad and moving. Never put all your eggs in the same basket. If that basket gets run over you lose all your eggs. Yet the film has a charm beyond that and the charm comes from the number five, for one, and the reversal of age order for two. Five is a strange number. The Sullivans are a good Catholic Irish family. So six should be a better number and actually it is reached with the daughter and that brings the family to eight, Christ in his glory. Note when the five boys are dead, if we take into account the wife of the youngest son and their son that makes five again. Five is a deeply pagan number associated with life, the enjoyment of life and here it is inverted by the tragic death of the five sons leaving five people behind them. That is also surprising because of the satanic dimension of this number in a catholic dimension, and this inversion is typically American: the revisiting and de-diabolizing of this number, especially since they become heroes and their name is given to a war ship. Note the last vision of them is a dream when the ship is christened: four sons at first in two groups of two and the fifth one, the only married one, the youngest one coming running after. And then this number five becomes the basic symbol of the western civilization, the five fingers of a hand, the five senses and so many other things that come in five, especially the five cent nickel. Apart from that the film is nothing but propaganda, even when showing the suffering of the survivors, parents, sister and wife: very soft suffering indeed.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
The Fighting Sullivans (2008-02-09)
Customer Review : 5
This is an excellent movie about families sticking together through out their entire life. I remember watching this movie as a child and I loved it back then as I do today. My children also loved this movie and enyoyed watching it.
the fighting sullivans (2007-12-29)
Customer Review : 5
I grew up with parents from the mid-west and then moved to the west. My whole life I was taught to support our country, our flag and show respect to our soldiers. I saw this movie for the first time on a very late night while I was baby sitting as a young teenager. I fell in love with the family and the partriotism. This movie was made during the war and of course as an adult that is a history buff, I can see that this movie was used to sell war bonds. Whatever the reason, it is always inspiring to see families that came before my time that fought for my freedoms. Thank you for making this movie available. MKM
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