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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767800457
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0767800451
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: September 23, 1997
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 30034
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Harrison Ford is impossibly young and handsome as an American pilot in the World War II romance Hanover Street; Lesley-Anne Down (The Great Train Robbery) is stunningly beautiful as the British nurse who falls in love with him, despite being married to British intelligence agent Christopher Plummer. In fact, everything about Hanover Street is just a little over the top, from the insanely romantic dialogue to the absurd war-buddy banter of Ford and his bomber crew to the love-making montage in which Down seems to have at least a dozen orgasms. Down and Plummer have a daughter (played by future Lethal Weapon 2 love interest Patsy Kensit) who's so precious and precocious you just want to smack her. The whole thing is almost a camp pastiche of a war romance--but when Ford and Plummer find themselves together behind enemy lines, you'll suddenly discover that you're caught up in the story. Through sheer movie-star charisma and cunningly ridiculous plot mechanics, Hanover Street becomes not only entertaining, but even touching. Plummer is particularly good as an ordinary man who wishes to become something more, Ford is stalwart as only he can be, and Down is just too lovely to resist (it's hard to understand how her career ended up with the likes of Beastmaster 3: The Eye of Braxus and Death Wish 5: The Face of Death). All in all, a surprisingly enjoyable cinematic experience. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hanover Street
This is a great Harrison Ford movie, and probably not seen by a lot of people. Christopher Plummer also does some great acting. One of my
favorite movies.
Barbara S Taylor
Rating:  - Silly but highly enjoyable
One of the delights of DVD - even more than video - is that its insatiable desire for fresh product sees the resurrection of swathes of unloved would-be blockbusters that no self-respecting cinematheque would ever include in any retrospective and which would otherwise be left to rot in time-compressed panned-and-scanned graveyard slots on network TV just before the infomercials start. These aren't the forgotten or under-appreciated masterpieces awaiting rediscovery, but rather the misjudged, the ... Read More
Rating: - Best of both worlds
This nice little movie combines action and romance in a balance that keeps everyone interested and enjoying the flick. Good story line and climatic ending make this a classic sleeper.
Rating:  - One of my favorite movies
I saw this a few years ago and have been wanting to see it again--awesome plot!!
Rating:  - 50s Retro Of The 80s Is Cheesy
In case you haven't heard `Hanover Street' 100% directed in a 50s style of Hollywood fantasy, music, acting, editing, and dialogue which by today's standards comes across as cheesy rather than nostalgic.
"Embarrassing" is a better description than horrible. Embarrassing is how to describe the way the film makers should have felt. That professional filmmakers and producers sat down and decided to direct a WWII film in 50s fashion is truly embarrassing.
The Plot: Not that ... Read More
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