A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Kris Kristofferson | as | Bill Willis | | Barbara Hershey | as | Marcella Willis | | Leelee Sobieski | as | Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 14 | | Jane Birkin | as | Mrs. Fortescue | | Dominique Blanc | as | Candida | | Jesse Bradford | as | Billy Willis, Age 14 | | Harley Cross | as | Keith Carter | | Isaach De Bankolé | as | Mamadou (as Isaac De Bankole) | | Macha Méril | as | Madame Beauvier (as Macha Meril) | | Nathalie Richard | as | Mademoiselle Fournier | | Anthony Roth Costanzo | as | Francis Fortescue | | Bob Swaim | as | Bob Smith | | Virginie Ledoyen | as | Billy's Mother | | Luisa Conlon | as | Young Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 7 | | Samuel Gruen | as | Benoit/Young Billy Willis, Age 7 |
| | Crew list: | | James Ivory (Director) | | Kaylie Jones (Writer) | | James Ivory (Writer) |
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Review
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 (Kris Kristofferson), 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 (Barbara Hershey), daughter (Leelee Sobieski), and an adopted son (Jesse Bradford), 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. |
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