Description: This multilayered movie from 1985 isn't the best known of Meryl Streep's movies (it got largely overshadowed that year by "Out of Africa") and those more in tune to her commercial efforts such as "Death Becomes Her," of "She-Devil" will likely be sorely disappointed.
Based on David Hare's stage play, the story revolves around Susan Traherne a British woman who, when the movie opens, is working as a part of the French resistance during World War II. The movie then follows her and her life over the next 20 years as show slowly becomes disillusioned with the vacuous society that springs up over the next two decades after the war and begins to question the idealism that led her into the resistance in the first place.
Some have been critical of Streep's performance as being "chilly" forgetting the fact that this is precisely the traits of the character that the script emphasizes particularly as she begins her downward spiral into dissatisfaction with postwar life.
Adding to the strong performacne by Streep is the supporting cast, particaulry Charles Dance as her husband, Tracy Ullman (in her first movie role) as her best friend, and the late John Gielgud as the Brisith diplomat she humilates. Look also for small, but pivitol, roles from Sting, Ian McKellen and Sam Neil.
"There will be days and days like this" says Susan Traherne as she looks out over a lovely pastoral scene in rural France on a clear day after the war has ended. "Plenty" is a powerful reminder of how such optimism can quickly be dismantled.
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