Hobson's Choice Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 7716

Average Rating: 2.6/4

# of Ratings: 16

Theatrical Release Date: 06/14/1954

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 02/17/2009

Language: English

Genre: Comedy, Drama

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: David Lean

Actors: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales, Derek Blomfield

Plot: Set in late nineteenth-century Lancashire, this story follows the fortunes of an overbearing boot-maker named Henry Hobson. As he yields increasingly to alcoholism and becomes ever more bellicose, Henry begins to lose control of his circumstances. When his headstrong eldest daughter, Maggie, declares that she will marry her father's meek yet talented cobbler, Willie Mossop, Henry's angry reaction drives the pair to leave and begin a store in rivalry of their father's. This precipitates a series of events at the end of which Henry must choose to cling to pride or to preserve his very well-being.

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Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 03/09/2024

Mostly amusing, but when it comes to David Lean I prefer either a grand-scale epic or a Dickens adaptation.

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