Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (A)
- Director: James Ivory
- Writer: James Ivory; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Kaylie Jones
- Producer: Ismail Merchant; Jane Barclay; Nayeem Hafizka
CGiii Comment
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.
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Cast & Characters
Kris Kristofferson as Bill Willis;
Leelee Sobieski as Charlotte Anne Willis;
Barbara Hershey as Marcella Willis;
Jesse Bradford as Billy Willis;
Isaach De Bankole as Mamadou;
Virginie Ledoyen;
Harley Cross as Keith Carter;
Jane Birkin as Mrs. Fortescue;
Nathalie Richard as Mademoiselle Fournier;
Macha Meril as Madame Beauvier;
Dominique Blanc as Candida;
Anthony Roth Costanzo