The plot itself is about the Miniver family, with Mrs. Miniver (I don't believe her first name is ever mentioned, strangely) played by Greer Garson (who won Best Actress that year) and her husband, Clem, played by Walter Pidgeon, at the helm. They live somewhere in the English countryside in a small village. In the month preceding Great Britain's entrance into the war, life in the village is quite quaint with the judging of the best rose in the village coming up, the eldest Miniver son, Vin, returning from Oxford and immediately falling in love with the granddaughter of the "matriarch" of the village (aka the richest woman in town), and a local dance/ball. It's a delightful little family comedy until the enemies come knocking at the door (sometimes literally). This felt like a very honest depiction of the lives that some of the British, not just the soldiers but the regular townsfolk, might have led. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would really recommend it!
4.5/5 stars