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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

US:: R Drama

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.

Updated May 21 2020

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1998-09-18

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Keywords:

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

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Runtime: 127 mins Revenue: $1,782,005 Rating: 6.8 Tag Line: The city of lights. A famous American author and the decade that changed a generation...forever.

Cast

Isaach De Bankolé

Mamadou (as Isaac De Bankole)

Nathalie Richard

Madame Fournier

Macha Méril

Madame Beauvier

Barbara Hershey

Marcella Willis

Kris Kristofferson

Bill Willis

Jane Birkin

Mrs. Fortescue

Jesse Bradford

Billy Willis, Age 14

Dominique Blanc

Candida