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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

ALL 09/18/1998 (it) Drama 127 Min
  • Release
    09/18/1998
  • Production
    Capitol Films, British Screen Productions, Merchant Ivory Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    61%
  • Original title
    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
  • Original language
    it
  • Production Cost
  • 1,782,005.00
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The city of lights. A famous American author and the decade that changed a generation...forever.

Overview

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.

  1. James Ivory

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Ismail Merchant

    Producer



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  1. Kris Kristofferson

    Bill Willis

  2. Leelee Sobieski

    Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 14

  3. Jane Birkin

    Mrs. Fortescue

  4. Barbara Hershey

    Marcella Willis

  5. Dominique Blanc

    Candida

  6. Virginie Ledoyen

    Billy's Mother

  7. Jesse Bradford

    Billy Willis, Age 14

  8. Isaach De Bankolé

    Mamadou

  9. Anne-Cécile Crapie

    Mademoiselle Picot

  10. Anthony Decadi

    Schoolyard Tease

  11. Harley Cross

    Keith Carter

  12. Macha Méril

    Madame Beauvier

  13. Nathalie Richard

    Madame Fournier

  14. Anthony Roth Costanzo

    Francis Fortescue

  15. Bob Swaim

    Bob Smith

  16. Luisa Conlon

    Young Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 7

  17. Samuel Gruen

    Benoit / Young Billy Willis, Age 7

  18. Michelle Fairley

    Miss O'Shaunessy

  19. Scott Thomas

    First Jock

  20. Frédéric Da

    Stephane

  21. Christopher Berry

    Steve Bates

  22. Antoine Chain

    Pierre Anloite (Billy's Father)

  23. Marie Henriau

    Social Worker

  24. Florence Villeminot

    Gillis Smith

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 24 , Crews : 24

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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) 127 Min

ALL 09/18/1998 (it)
Drama
  • Release 09/18/1998
  • Production
    Capitol Films, British Screen Productions, Merchant Ivory Productions
  • Original title A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
  • it
  • Revenue1,782,005.00

The city of lights. A famous American author and the decade that changed a generation...forever.

Overview

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.

  1. James Ivory

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Noëlle Boisson

    Editor

  4. Ismail Merchant

    Producer



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