A Separate Peace

1972

Drama

1
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 531 531

based on novel or book boys' school

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Plot summary

Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to the fullest. The two boys attend the Devon School, which prepares them for military life that they will most likely be subjected to. The film begins with a narration by an older Gene, traveling back to Devon some years later. The thing he wishes most to see is the tree, which had a great effect on the boys' lives

Director

Larry Peerce Photo
Larry Peerce

Top cast

Parker Stevenson Photo
Parker Stevenson as Gene
Frank Wilich Jr. Photo
Frank Wilich Jr. as Quackenbush
Elizabeth B. Brewster Photo
Elizabeth B. Brewster as Mrs. Patchwithers
Edward Echols Photo
Edward Echols as Mr. Ludsbury
720p.WEB
958.26 MB
952*720
English 2.0
NR
30 fps
1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by moonspinner55 6 / 10

"With you, it's different..."

Many years after graduating college in New Hampshire in 1942, a nostalgic man revisits the campus of his alma mater in the off-season and reminisces about his roommate, a gregarious and reckless lad who goaded his friends into living for the day, breaking the rules and--most especially--jumping out of a tall tree into the lake below. Overlooked film version of John Knowles' semi-autobiographical novel (which, in turn, was expanded from his short story "Phineas") has a deeply personal feel even on the screen. While Knowles denied any homoerotic undercurrents in the text, those who do sense an attraction between the roommates, played here by John Heyl and Parker Stevenson, are bound to be the film's biggest admirers (when the novel is discussed in schools, it is said that homosexuality is never brought up in class, yet that hasn't stopped some schools from banning the book). There's a lovely simplicity--and, conversely, an unspoken complexity--in the friendship between the young men, which screenwriter Fred Segal cautiously, carefully tiptoes through (which is better than being tiptoed around). Director Larry Peerce works well with his actors, most of them non-professionals, and shows a keen, stylish eye for the period (surprising, since Peerce at this point had not shown much sensitivity). Not a hit with audiences, the picture grossed just under $1M at the US box office and was promptly forgotten, but it has a special sort of gleam. **1/2 from ****
Reviewed by vincentlynch-moonoi 7 / 10

I liked it in 1972, and I liked it in 2020

Reviewed by andrew-683-292263 7 / 10

It's a decent movie that is more entertaining than the book.

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