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What's for Dinner

5.019409mMovieDocumentary

The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.

DirectorRuby Grierson
ProducerEdgar Anstey

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Cast · Directed by Ruby Grierson

ACAlec Clunes
Alec Clunes
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What's for Dinner hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around May 16, 1940. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.