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]
00:09:54 Pequeñina.
00:17:10 [Singing Continues]
00:23:35 It's a very serious crime to sign someone else's name.
00:28:12 So perhaps you'll understand this foolish girl was only 15.
00:37:36 [Bill] Marcella, ante up.
00:45:15 You don't have an ear for music, so you can't tell.
00:48:47 Francis can sleep on the TV cot in your room, Channe.
00:54:40 Oh!
00:58:20 You two, out.
01:02:27 You know what your problem is?
01:07:15 None of this is any big deal, Channe.
01:14:09 Like all our friends' kids did.
01:19:35 It's only that... heart disease runs in his family.
01:23:49 #[Continues Indistinct]
01:28:45 With the others, they're nice to me before
01:32:04 who looks like they'll do more than pump gas for the rest of their lives.
01:37:31 - Don't talk like that. I don't wanna hear it. - What are you talking about?
01:41:32 - I'll tell you that. - [Groaning]
01:45:08 Let 'em do it right.
01:48:33 That's because of you and Channe makin' a racket...
01:53:07 Let's go.
01:59:26 [Laughs] Look at you.
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