It's not really enough to TELL us it's 1941, put the women in turbans and show the odd uniform if there's no FEEL of the period; frankly Foyle's War (a series on English TV) had more feel for the times and that was far from spot-on in period detail. As it stands Lands Girls could easily be an extra long episode of Heartbeat, or Peak Practice (two other series on English TV, the former set in the 1960s). Probably on paper and/or at the pitching stage this passed muster; a little-explored facet of the second world war with fat parts for women, sign here, Mr. Producer and order a second roller: on screen, however, it's a different story. The acting is fine - as it should be with people like Tome Georgeson in the cast - as it's reasonably well photographed but it's impossible that these people are actually living in 1941 and you can practically see the mobile phones come out in between takes. For the easily pleased.

This somewhat tepid and quiet film follows three women from three different places, both socially and geographically, to a Dorset farm to work while the men who tend it go to fight in WWII. They gain each other's trust and experience the joy and pains of love.McCormack (Braveheart) and Weisz (The Mummy) do well, but they both are wasted on a film only slightly better than dull.

The plot is very realistic, the activities fun to watch, the ending hard to guess. Typical British film with hard to follow accents, bawdy behavior, average camera work. Overall a nice way to kill an hour or two.

Here's an engaging marriage of the tremendous "Cold Comfort Farm" and that awful Italian "hired hand beds three sisters on a farm" film [whose name escapes me, which is a good thing].This is an always~interesting character study of three radically different young British women who, during the early stages of WWII, join England's "Women's Land Army" ~ a war effort which had women working fields in order to cultivate more crops for food for the troops.The trio lands in a rural farm, essentially because the farm's frequently~irrascible patriarch's randy son is about to join the RAF.Said "joining" is continually postponed by the son for various reasons ~ all of which involve women, and several of which rotate around the "Land girls."Sure, some of the material is derivative (what isn't, at this point in cinematic history?)But the performances are perfect: the only scenery~chewing you'll see here is by the scenery itself ~ lush landscapes of meadows, earthy shots of the work at hand, terrific [and appropriate at all times] cinematography.Cool reference to "Streetcar" leaps off the screen at a pivotal point in the film.Nice wrap~up as well. I stumbled across this on cable and was amazed that this didn't come through the Detroit suburban area...Now it's time for you to stumble upon it. You'll not regret the rental.