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It's Always Fair Weather

(1955)

''It's Always Fair Weather'' is one of the best movies about the veteran experience

For a classic MGM musical that includes a dazzling number in which Gene Kelly (shown, left with Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray) dances in roller skates, this is a surprisingly grim tale. Wartime buddies Kelly, Dailey, and Kidd reunite 10 years after coming home from World War II, only to realize that they don't really like each other anymore and have nothing in common but their service memories and their disillusionment at how they've each failed to live up to their dreams. All is ultimately resolved through the magic of well-choreographed dance and slapstick farce, but not before the film lays waste to myths of military camaraderie and the crass realities of life in consumerist postwar America.

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