If you loved The Heiress, try The Best Years of Our Lives

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by William Wyler, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Heiress, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Best Years of Our Lives is

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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