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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) [R]

Release Date:
September 18, 1998

Original Title:
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

Alternate Titles:
En soldats datter gråter aldri
La fille d'un soldat ne pleure jamais

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
British Screen Productions
Capitol Films
Merchant Ivory Productions

Production Countries:
France | United Kingdom | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: R 

Runtime: 127

The city of lights. A famous American author and the decade that changed a generation...forever.

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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ADR Mixer:
Mark DeSimone

Art Direction:
Linwood Taylor
Per-Olof Renard

Casting:
Tricia Tomey

Co-Executive Producer:
Sharon Harel-Cohen
Jane Barclay

Co-Producer:
Paul Bradley

Costume Design:
Carol Ramsey

Director:
James Ivory

Director of Photography:
Jean-Marc Fabre

Editor:
Noëlle Boisson

Executive Producer:
Richard Hawley
Nayeem Hafizka

Key Hair Stylist:
Thomas Nellen

Novel:
Kaylie Jones

Original Music Composer:
Richard Robbins

Producer:
Ismail Merchant

Production Design:
Pat Garner
Jacques Bufnoir

Screenplay:
James Ivory
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Set Decoration:
James Edward Ferrell Jr.

Sound:
Ludovic Hénault

Sound Recordist:
Tim Cavagin

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