“We’ll start with something fun and easy.”

From Military Wives.

While her husband, Richard (Greg Wise), is preparing to deploy, Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas) is anxious for his first deployment since the death of their son because she will be completely alone for the next six months.  Even though fellow military wife Lisa (Sharon Horgan) is the woman that has been placed in charge of the wives support group, Kate volunteers to assist… to Lisa’s displeasure.  Pushing Lisa for a more event-packed calendar, Kate finds herself taking ideas from the other wives, including knitting, dinners, walks, and a singing group.  While the nervous, perfection-seeking Kate tries to keep herself occupied, she finds herself at odds with Lisa and most of the other wives, but soon finds herself sucked into leading the choir.  Kate pushes for a more traditional choir, but knowing how the other wives feel about her, she asks the pop music-loving Lisa to co-direct.  As Lisa struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, Frankie (India Ria Amarteifio), Kate seems to be able to help get Frankie to stop complaining and help out with the choir a bit instead.  However, when the choir is invited to sing at the televised Festival of Remembrance in London, Kate and Lisa begin to work with the choir, especially Jess (Gaby French), Sarah (Amy James-Kelly), Ruby (Lara Rossi), Maz (Laura Checkley), and Annie (Emma Lowndes).  As Kate and Lisa prepare the choir to sing together in a way that honors their loved ones away fighting, both women will have to find a way to overcome their many differences and work together before the performance ends in disaster.

Inspired by true events, this story manages to be both heartbreaking and heartwarming.  Thomas and Horgan both bring drastically different characters to life, but manage to work well together on screen, even if just in their display of opposites.  Highlighting the incredible burden that is placed on military spouses and families, Military Wives is a powerful reminder of the strength needed for those who are “married to war.”

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 113 minutes |Genre: comedy/drama/musical/biography |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0.5 of 10|Gore: 0 of 10

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