A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998 · 127 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 2,526 VOTES · DIR. James Ivory
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,301 lines
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00:00:35 [Seagulls Screeching]
00:09:17 You're staying with us forever.
00:16:50 Ow!
00:23:15 The kids were having a party, and I wanted to go.
00:27:23 A better one, certainly, than I can.
00:33:15 Hey, throw that back here.
00:41:46 and then someone from your house could pick us up at night.
00:48:13 Pretty!
00:53:39 Inside yourself, you're a duke's son.
00:57:33 Mm.
01:01:37 In fact, her father-in-law is...
01:06:10 - # Let it be # - Francis.
01:11:42 [Door Opening]
01:17:00 Francis!
01:22:18 Isn't that your brother?
01:26:55 Could you take me out of this school, Daddy?
01:30:49 Fucking Frog. Ribbit, ribbit.
01:34:41 Anyway, I'm not. I'm a writer's daughter.
01:39:13 She'd known him forever.
01:43:04 Well, if your mother won't let you have hers, you can take mine out once in a while.
01:46:50 - just as long as you don't marry Keith. - Who's gonna marry Keith?
01:50:29 Everybody's waitin' for us, for Christ's sakes.
01:55:43 I kinda like him."
02:00:37 She only saw you that one time when she stood at our window to get a glimpse of you.