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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries(1998)
Status: Released
Date: 1998-09-18
61%
22 Votes
Time: 2h 7m
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.
Languages: English, French.
Countries:
United Kingdom,
France,
United States of America
Revenue: $1,782,005.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Merchant Ivory Productions
Merchant Ivory Productions
British Screen Productions
Movie: A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Top 10 Billed Cast
Kris Kristofferson
Bill Willis
Leelee Sobieski
Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 14
Jane Birkin
Mrs. Fortescue
Barbara Hershey
Marcella Willis
Dominique Blanc
Candida
Virginie Ledoyen
Billy's Mother
Jesse Bradford
Billy Willis, Age 14
Isaach de Bankolé
Mamadou
Anne-Cécile Crapie
Mademoiselle Picot
Anthony Decadi
Schoolyard Tease
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