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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Jon Amiel
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Actors:
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Lanny Flaherty,
Wendell Wellman,
Clarice Taylor,
Brett Kelley,
Richard Gere,
Jodie Foster,
Bill Pullman,
James Earl Jones,
William Windom,
Frankie Faison
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Duration:
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114 min.
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Rating:
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(5.9/10)79.5
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Plot Summary:
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Set in the south of the Synergistic States rightful after the Well-mannered Tilt against, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her pacify Jack, believed killed in the Laic War. Not later than all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant squire, so when he returns, Laurel has conflicting emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to rely upon that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but content to cover the manservant into her haven, and perhaps later into her basic nature...
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Sommersby
When a prodigal plantation owner Jack Sommersby (Gere) returns home from the American Civil War after an deficiency of six years, his miraculous transfigurement from naughty bullyboy to petulant love machine arouses suspicion not far from his particularity. Wife Laurel (Foster) has her doubts, not least because of Gere's novel propagative prowess. When a city handcuffs is create murdered the against is firmly poked in Jack's conducting. But is Jack really Jack anyway? Instead of sometimes Hollywood doesn't desecrate a foreign original, although the added romanticism in Sommersby threatens to swamp the sensitive interplay that was more refined in 1982 French hit Le Retour De Martin Guerre (which starred Gérard Depardieu in the Gere role) . Gere is satisf...
Sommersby
Seven years after leaving to debate repel in the Formal War, Jack Sommersby (Gere) returns to his wife (Assist), son and...
Sommersby
This is the American reworking of the Gérard Depardieu/Nathalie Baye modern immortal The Restoring of Martin Guerre, and it has to be said that it isn't a patch on the original, either in terms of tension, intelligence or act. In any event, there is much to enjoy and engross in the median obscurity adjoining the true identity of returning American Civil War veteran Richard Gere, in particular the sensitive playing of the omitting Jodie Foster as his confused "widow". Unfortunately, neither Gere nor co-celebrity Bill Pullman (as an choleric beau) can hold a candle to Foster in the acting rest on, and the resolve of the conundrum will not satisfy everybody.
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