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These women found themselves in the same life situation, while having nothing in common at all. They are the wives of the military who went to Afghanistan. To keep from going crazy with anxiety, Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Lisa (Sharon Horgan) are organizing an amateur choir of military wives and girlfriends. Soon, the local media finds out about this, and their initiative becomes popular. The band was invited to sing at the UK Armed Forces Day celebrations, where the Queen herself would be present. The movie is based on real events. Britain did indeed form the first military wives’ choir, which became a real sensation on the BBC reality show. At the moment, according to the final credits of the film, there are now 75 similar choirs with 2,300 participants around the world. In Military Wives, women of completely different worldviews, belonging to different social categories and having opposite hobbies, after a series of failures, agree that banal gatherings with coffee, although pleasant, do not help to distract from their own sad thoughts. The confrontation between two different views on life is reflected both in the way of life of the two families, and in the manner of building relationships with other people, which sometimes reveals various deep problems, both of the main characters themselves and those who communicate with them. Military Wives can appeal to any viewer who always expects a happy ending in the film's finale. But it may as well be immediately forgotten after watching, and it will not matter at all what the women sang about.

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