# The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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**Runtime**: 171 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: William Wyler
**Written by**: Robert E. Sherwood
**Starring**: Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Harold Russell, Teresa Wright, Myrna Loy, Cathy O'Donnell

> *Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

War’s end meant three veterans were going home, but none of them quite knew what they’d left there. A banker, a soda jerk, and a sergeant walk into a post-war town where small-town life has shrunk their ambitions and their selves. The hoped-for homecoming turns out to be just the latest installment in the sequel nobody asked for.

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