Three girls join the Women's Land Army in 1941, when most men are away at war, and go to work on a farm. All eye the farmer's son, who finds a new meaning for active duty as he bonks two and falls for the third. Director David Leland catches the period perfectly on the surface, but his touch with detail is less sure. The hairdresser (Anna Friel) is automatically a floozy, the bluestocking (Rachel Weisz) is jolly hockey sticks and green, and the gentle romantic (Catherine McCormack) just too practical: we never fathom just how she learned the art of perfect ploughing, or why indeed she would fall for the Lothario farmboy (Steven Mackintosh). Best line, when Weisz, deflowered by Mackintosh, explains to her friends that 'I asked for seconds but he refused'. As a bawdy, bitter-sweet comedy this works well enough, but as history it's bunk.

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