History Film / TheGuernseyLiteraryAndPotatoPeelPieSociety

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the novel, Juliet lost her parents when she was twelve, and by the time of the present day story has been able to process their passing after nearly twenty years. In the film, she lost them suddenly during the war, and their deaths are still very fresh on her mind.

* SmallReferencePools: Charles Lamb isn't an author that's commonly taught in most English-speaking schools, but [[Creator/EmilyBronte the]] [[Creator/CharlotteBronte Brontë]] [[Creator/AnneBronte sisters]], Creator/JaneAusten, Creator/RudyardKipling and Creator/CharlesDickens certainly are, and their works are prominently quoted throughout the film.

* SmallReferencePools: Charles Lamb isn't an author that's commonly taught in most English-speaking schools, but the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens certainly are, and their works are prominently quoted throughout the film.

* MeetCute: Juliet and Dawsey's first face-to-face meeting, which nearly results in Juliet getting hit by slabs of falling slate. Twice.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the novel, Juliet lost her parents when she was twelve, and by the time of the present day story has been able to process their passing after nearly twenty years. In the film, she lost them suddenly during an air raid in London, and their deaths are still very fresh on her mind.

* HolierThanThou: Charlotte Stimples. Juliet calls her out for taking the Bible's messages of love and using it to judge other people and put them down.

* AdaptationalJerkass: While still a sympathetic and loving mother figure (as she was in the novel), Amelia is considerably colder to Juliet in this version upon their introduction, and it takes a lot more for her to open up about Elizabeth's circumstances.

* AdaptationalNiceness: Kit and Juliet get along pretty much right off the bat, while in the novel Kit initially saw Juliet as an intrusion with all the attention she was getting from Kit's foster family.

* AdaptedOut: The film cuts Remy Giraud and her subplot. There is a small reference to her in Juliet's notes when Juliet finds the flowers she pressed into the notebook, but that's it.

* ColorMotif: Juliet is blue - when she is most herself, or when she is writing, she is in blue. When she is closest to Dawsey, he wears his blue sweater. Sydney and upper class London are yellow - her yellow dress, his yellow office. Guernsey is mostly brown or green. Mark and his rose bouquets are red. The Germans, of course, are [[ Film/Casablanca grey]].

* LongTitle: 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'. Lampshaded when [[spoiler:Juliet writes a book about the eponymous society and titles it that, with Sidney saying it's a mouthful.]]

* TragicKeepsake: Juliet's father was killed in the war, and she remembers him via his paperweight.

''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' is a 2018 romantic comedy-drama film [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 2008 novel of the same name]]. It was directed by Mike Newell and stars Creator/LilyJames, Michiel Huisman, Creator/GlenPowell, Creator/JessicaBrownFindlay, Katherine Parkinson, Creator/MatthewGoode, Tom Courtenay, and Creator/PenelopeWilton.

''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' is a 2018 romantic comedy-drama film [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 2008 novel of the same name]]. It was directed by Mike Newell and stars Creator/LilyJames, Michiel Huisman, Creator/GlenPowell, Creator/JessicaBrownFindlay, Katherine Parkinson, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtenay, and Creator/PenelopeWilton.

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''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' is a 2018 romantic comedy-drama film [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 2008 novel of the same name]]. It was directed by Mike Newell and stars Creator/LilyJames, Michel Huisman, Creator/GlenPowell, Creator/JessicaBrownFindlay, Katherine Parkinson, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtenay, and Creator/PenelopeWilton.

''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' is a 2018 romantic comedy-drama film [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 2008 novel of the same name]]. It was directed by Mike Newell and stars Creator/LilyJames, Michel Huisman, Creator/GlenPowell, Creator/JessicaBrownFindlay, Katherine Parkinson, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtenay, and Penelope Wilton.

* AdaptedOut: The film cuts Remy Giraud and her subplot.
** There is a small shoutout/reference to Remy in Juliet's notes when Juliet finds the flowers she pressed into the notebook.

* EnormousEngagementRing: The engagement ring Juliet gets from Mark is obviously large and conspicuous. with many stones adorning it. Juliet feels embarrassed wearing it around rural Guernsey, and Isola instantly notes that Mark is rich upon seeing it. [[spoiler:Juliet and Dawsey's rings, on the other hand, are far simpler.]]

* There is a small shoutout/reference to her in Juliet's notes while she's typing towards the end of the film.

It is [[TheForties 1946]]. Juliet Ashton (James) is an up-and-coming London writer fresh off the success of her new book and struggling to cope with the loss of her parents in the war. She receives a letter from Dawsey Adams (Huisman), a farmer from [[UsefulNotes/TheChannelIslands Guernsey]], who introduces himself as a member of the "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" and asks for her help in locating a book. From this, they strike up a correspondence. Juliet is intrigued by the formation of the Society and since she has to write an article about the benefits of reading, decides to pay them a visit. She is charmed by Guernsey and the Society's other members (elderly postman Eben (Courtenay), lonely romantic Isola (Parkinson), and stern but motherly Amelia (Wilton)) but eventually becomes curious about the whereabouts of the last founding member, Elizabeth (Brown Findlay).

A British-French production, the film was released in the United Kingdom in April 2018 in France in June 2018. The film was released in other international areas on Creator/{{Netflix}} in August of the same year.

* FromNewYorkToNowhere: People wonder what on Earth up-and-coming London author Juliet is doing in the rural Guernsey. [[spoiler:She permanently moves there at the end.]]

* FriendToAllChildren: Elizabeth, who comforted Eben's young grandson Eli when the latter was being evacuated before the German occupation, [[spoiler:was arrested when trying to rescue a young Polish slave, and eventually took a beating for a young girl at a concentration camp, leading directly to her death.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Dawsey is raising Elizabeth's daughter Kit in her absence, to the point of Kit calling him "Daddy". [[spoiler:It is implied that this continues into the epilogue, with Juliet now helping raise her alongside him.]]

It is [[TheForties 1946]]. Juliet Ashton (James) is an up-and-coming London writer fresh off the success of her new book and struggling to cope with the loss of her parents in the war. She receives a letter from Dawsey Adams (Huisman), a farmer from [[UsefulNotes/TheChannelIslands Guernsey]], who introduces himself as a member of the "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" and asks for her help in locating a book. From this, they strike up a correspondence. Juliet is intrigued by the formation of the Society and since she has to write an article about the benefits of reading, decides to pay them a visit. She falls in love with Guernsey and the Society's other members, elderly postman Eben (Courtenay), lonely romantic Isola (Parkinson), and stern but motherly Amelia (Wilton), but eventually becomes curious about the whereabouts of the last founding member, Elizabeth (Brown Findlay).

* HolierThanThou: Charlotte Stimples. Juliet calls her out for taking the Bible's messages of love and using them to judge other people and put them down.
* LongTitle: 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'. Lampshaded [[spoiler:when Juliet writes a book about the eponymous society and titles it that, with Sidney saying it's a mouthful.]]
* MissedHimByThatMuch: In the end, [[spoiler:subverted. Juliet is gets on a boat to Guernsey ''just'' before Dawsey gets off it, the two of them barely missing each other...at least until Juliet spots him from the deck and runs to him.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Dawsey is raising Elizabeth's daughter Kit in her absence, to the point of Kit calling him "Daddy". [[spoiler:It is implied that this continues into the epilogue, with Juliet now helping raise her.]]