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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1998, September 18
Directors: James Ivory
Countries: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: Merchant Ivory Productions, Merchant Ivory Productions, October Films, October Films, Capitol Films, Capitol Films, British Screen Productions, British Screen Productions
Cast: Michelle Fairley, Christopher Berry, Isaach de Bankolé, Scott Thomas, Leelee Sobieski, Barbara Hershey, Kris Kristofferson, Virginie Ledoyen, Jesse Bradford, Nathalie Richard, Macha Méril, Jane Birkin

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book author coming of age family relationships paris, france 1960s 1970s adopted son new england adopted brother