A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

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.

• Release date
• September 18, 1998
• Runtime
• 127 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• James Ivory

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