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    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

    Poster of the movie A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
    1998     Drama    
    France/United Kingdom/USA
    2h 7min
    Original lang: English, French
    R
    Guide for parents: offensive language.
    G
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, offensive language.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, offensive language.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, offensive language.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, offensive language.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, offensive language.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, offensive language.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, offensive language.

    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.

    Directed byJames Ivory
    Written byJames Ivory
    CompanyBritish ScreenBritish ScreenBritish Screen

    Starring

    Kris Kristofferson
    Barbara Hershey
    Leelee Sobieski
    Dominique Blanc
    Jesse Bradford
    Isaach De Bankolé
    Virginie Ledoyen
    Woody Allen
    + MORE

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