Very well executed

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I enjoyed this one quite a bit, set in two time zones and countries with a more than decent cast. There's mystery, a heartbreaking romance, and an exciting (yet convenient) conclusion in Ireland.The story flips fairly seamlessly between 1991 and 1943, starting with the passing of World War II veteran Chuck Harris. His wife (Shirley MacLaine) refuses to grieve, numbing herself with alcohol and lashing out at her daughter (Neve Campbell) and lifelong friend (Christopher Plummer).Through a series of flashbacks where Shirley becomes (Mischa Barton), we learn that Chuck wasn't her first love and that her heart belonged to Teddy (Stephen Amell) who never returned from WW2. We also see Belfast in 1991 where (Pete Postlethwaite) - love him and young Jimmy are digging on a mountainside finding bits of pieces from a downed B-17 bomber, eventually they discover a ring inscribed from Teddy to Ethel and after tracking down its history a mystery nearly five decades in the making slowly comes into focus.The story is very good story but a bit all over the place where the characters emotions are concerned, which are over the top at times and mean without reason. Shirley is especially nasty to her daughter but even Plummer has his moments.The acting was fantastic though, the flashbacks well done, I was surprised to see Stephen Amell's 'Arrow' in an early role. The story in Ireland was more involved than I thought it would be including gangsters and IRA bombings. I enjoyed Martin McCann as young Jimmy and the inclusion of the hawk to tie it all together. Sad. 11/8/15

Love. Choises. A house. And a ring. Pieces of a impressive story about the traces of past. About walls and crashes. About return and long years in gray skin of expectation. Piece of a time who must be lost, the movie is novel of a old and fascinating way to discover the life in the small details and heavy marks.It is a provocation. Or seductive attempt to move stones to see the reality.Shirley MacLane is impressive. And Neve Campbell, like Mischa Burton , has the chance to burst pattern. A love story, a war and slices of truth. Not more that. Ingredients of many movies in the romantic sauce. In this case, the nuances are more important that colors. So, only an unusual story.

I liked this film.The story is easy to follow, and interesting too. I had most of it figured out early on, but that didn't take away from the pleasure of watching it.I have three complaints, but none of them really sink the film. (Sorry, I did like the film, but I'm much better at complaining, so that's what my review will be. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this film was a good feature, but SHOULD have been great). (1) The acting by the younger Canadian/US actors is abysmal. It's like they all thought they were auditioning for Scary Movie 25 and ended up acting in this. Fortunately the script is able to survive it. (2) The effects are also abysmal. After Lord of the Rings happened (half a decade prior) there was no longer any excuse for crappy CG effects. The rule is: if you can't make it real, don't show it at all. Fortunately the story also survives this, because it's not really about that. (3) The central character is totally unlikeable, young or old. And choosing easily-recognizable actors for that role didn't help. This is probably the one that keeps me from rating this higher.Anyway, aside from that, it was an interesting and moving story, with good acting by the older set, and those playing Irish roles. The cinematography (aside from the CG) was also good.

For the life of me, I cannot figure how this got in my queue. I almost sent it back without watching, but there must have been a reason I put it there.Yes, Sir Richard Attenborough has made a lot of good films (Ghandi, Cry Freedom, Chaplain). Maybe this will be one of them. There are a lot of good actors here: Christopher Plummer, Neve Campbell, and Pete Postlethwaite, to name a few.Maybe it was to see Mischa Barton ("The O.C."), who played Shirley MacLaine's character as a young girl. We got a nice view when she was getting it on with Teddy (Stephen Amell). We get a full view later on when he is leaving for gunnery school.The story takes place in the present, when Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) has just buried Chuck (David Alpay), and 50 years prior at the dawn of WWII, when Chucck and Teddy (Stephen Amell) were heading off to war.A young boy (Martin McCann) has just found a rind belonging to Teddy and Ethel Ann at a B-17 crash site that Quinlan (Pete Postlethwaite) has been digging up. He has to get away from the IRA, so he brings it to America.Ethel Ann goes back with him to Belfast and finds love for the first time in 50 years.It was an excellent story. I was surprised, thinking it would be a Lifetime special, but the actors in it made it special.