A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Released: 1998
Drama
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.
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Leelee Sobieski, Jane Birkin, Barbara Hershey, Dominique Blanc, Virginie Ledoyen, Jesse Bradford, Isaach De Bankolé
Directed by: James Ivory
Written by: James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kaylie Jones
Language: French, English
Scenes
Young Billy confesses to his adopted sister that he has wet the bed due to some bad nightmares he was having. He changes his pajamas under the blanket then goes to sleep in her bed.
Alternate Titles
La fille d'un soldat ne pleure jamais