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1979
1941 is a 1979 American war comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. The film stars an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Stack, Nancy Allen, and Mickey Rourke in his film debut. The story involves a panic in the Los Angeles area after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Following *Jaws* and *Close Encounters of the Third Kind,* Steven Spielberg decided to try his hand at screwball comedy: *1941.*) Loosely based on the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attacks in December of that titular year, we follow the antics of assorted Americans as they live through that tumultuous time between declaration of war and the meatgrinder of combat. Comedy gold, right? While not technically a flop, it…More
1941 was a very bad year for most of humanity. Producing a film named after that year, set in that year and made as a comedy didn’t seem a very good idea. Unsurprisingly, such a film, made in 1979, is nowadays mostly known as the first major misfire in the career of the great and usually successful film-maker Steven Spielberg. 1941 actually wasn’t that bad for people fortunate enough to live in countries untouched b…More
