A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998, Film, 127 min, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 64
The city of lights. A famous American author and the decade that changed a generation...forever.
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.
Directed by James Ivory
Cast
- Leelee Sobieski as Channe - Age 14
- Kris Kristofferson as Bill Willis
- Virginie Ledoyen as Billy's Mother
- Marie Henriau as Social Worker
- Samuel Gruen as Billy - Age 7
- Luisa Conlon as Channe - Age 7
- Barbara Hershey as Marcella
- Dominique Blanc as Candida
- Bob Swaim as Bob Smith
- Dominic Gould as Poker Player - Paris
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