A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

Name: A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998-09-18
Duration: 2 h 7 min
Rating: 6.90
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Jane Birkin, Leelee Sobieski, Kris Kristofferson

– This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-l..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

6.90 / 10

Duration:

2 Hours and 7 Minutes

Release Year:

1998

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed 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.

Styles:

Dramatic, Tense, Talky, Witty, Clever, Emotional, Touching, Sentimental, Realistic, Serious

Story Timeline:

1970s, 20th Century, 1960s

Producing Country:

USA, UK, France

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, New England, Paris France, Europe, France

Genre:

Drama

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) - Trailer

Release Date:

18 Sep 1998

Language:

English, French

MPAA Content-Rating:

R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Directed by:

James Ivory

Story Written By:

Kaylie Jones, James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Main Actors:

Barbara Hershey, Jane Birkin, Leelee Sobieski, Kris Kristofferson

Plot:

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story. Jones here is portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero and now successful author who obviously drinks too much and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road that leaves all of them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual acceptance begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her sexuality is definitely not the normal for American teens and gives her a bad reputation and outcasts her. Meanwhile her brooding brother struggles with his own inner turmoils about his early desertion in life. Only within the tight knit confines of his family is he comfortable to even speak.

Awards:

4 nominations.

Production Company:

October Films

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

6.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

77%

Metacritic:

65%