Hope and Glory (1987)

TRUE MOVIES, 9.00PM ★★★★

 John Boorman’s highly personal account of the Second World War draws on his lower-middle-class suburban boyhood during the Blitz. It’s an affectionate piece with real moments of high drama, and a sense of a community who know that they are living on a knife edge. David Hayman excels as the cricket-loving father, but whatever happened to the excellent Sebastian Rice Edwards who played 10-year-old Bill?