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Released
1998 · FILM

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

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

Directed by
James Ivory
Written by
Kaylie Jones, James Ivory
Runtime
127 min
Drama

Synopsis

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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Principal cast & crew: 20

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Noelle BoissonShot by Jean Marc FabreScored by Richard Robbins

Box Office

1998 · Box office

Grossed $1.8M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$1.8M

Worldwide gross$1.8M

Opening weekend: $40K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 5 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Zeit der Jugendde
  • Zeit der Jugendde
  • La hija de un soldado nunca lloraes
  • La fille d'un soldat ne pleure jamaisfr
  • La figlia di un soldato non piange maiit

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