Fri., Jun. 12, 1998 12:00 AM PDT
We Yanks are suckers for an English accent and a period frock. We love heartwarming WWII tales involving babelicious birds who know how to show off that stiff upper lip. And it's certainly not a problem to adore this gorgeous, talented trio: McCormack (
Dangerous Beauty), Weisz (
Swept from the Sea) and Friel. Members of "The Women's Land Army," young Englishwomen, they struggle mightily to plow the land while their boys are at the front.
We
feel for strapping farmer guy (Mackintosh), whose heart condition prevents him from going to war, so he's stuck in the hay with all those girls. We're rooting for director Leland (who scripted
Mona Lisa), a proven hand at the ironic twists of repression, but he's burdened with a labored, predictable script, that makes the visually sumptious
Land little more than scenery.
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