# Gone with the Wind (1939)

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**Runtime**: 233 min
**Genres**: Drama, War, Romance
**Directed by**: Victor Fleming
**Written by**: Sidney Howard
**Starring**: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Thomas Mitchell

> *The greatest romance of all time!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Scarlett’s life is a plantation-sized problem set to a Southern Gothic soundtrack. She pines for Ashley, who’s engaged to his cousin, while Rhett Butler lurks nearby, smirking at the chaos. Civil War’s just the warm-up act for their will-they-won’t-they melodrama.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, epic, tender

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.2/10 (354268 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 97/100

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