A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

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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  • Release Date: 1998-09-18
  • Runtime: 2h 7min
  • Director: James Ivory

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Cast

  • Kris Kristofferson

    Bill Willis

  • Leelee Sobieski

    Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 14

  • Jane Birkin

    Mrs. Fortescue

  • Barbara Hershey

    Marcella Willis

  • Dominique Blanc

    Candida

  • Virginie Ledoyen

    Billy's Mother

  • Jesse Bradford

    Billy Willis, Age 14

  • Isaach de Bankolé

    Mamadou

  • Anne-Cécile Crapie

    Mademoiselle Picot

  • Anthony Decadi

    Schoolyard Tease

  • Harley Cross

    Keith Carter

  • Macha Méril

    Madame Beauvier

  • Nathalie Richard

    Madame Fournier

  • Anthony Roth Costanzo

    Francis Fortescue

  • Bob Swaim

    Bob Smith

  • Luisa Conlon

    Young Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 7

  • Samuel Gruen

    Benoit / Young Billy Willis, Age 7

  • Michelle Fairley

    Miss O'Shaunessy

  • Scott Thomas

    First Jock

  • Frédéric Da

    Stephane

  • Christopher Berry

    Steve Bates

  • Antoine Chain

    Pierre Anloite (Billy's Father)

  • Marie Henriau

    Social Worker

  • Florence Villeminot

    Gillis Smith

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