A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries The city of lights. A famous American author and the decade that changed a generation...forever.

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

Sep 18, 1998

Duration: 2h 7 min

Popularity: 0.4489
21 votes
Directed by

James Ivory

Casting: Tricia Tomey

Screenplay by

James IvoryRuth Prawer Jhabvala

Productions

Merchant Ivory Productions (US)October Films (US)Capitol Films (GB)British Screen (GB)

Budget

1.8 M