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Writers (WGA):
Daniel Vigne (film The Return of Martin Guerre) andJean-Claude Carrière (film The Return of Martin Guerre) ...
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Release Date:
5 February 1993 (USA) moreTagline:
She knew his face. His touch. His voice. She knew everything about him... But the truth.Plot:
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack... more | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins moreNewsDesk:
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Sweet and noble tear jerker moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Gere | ... | John Robert 'Jack' Sommersby | |
| Jodie Foster | ... | Laurel Sommersby | |
| Bill Pullman | ... | Orin Meecham | |
| James Earl Jones | ... | Judge Barry Conrad Issacs | |
| Lanny Flaherty | ... | Buck | |
| William Windom | ... | Reverend Powell | |
| Wendell Wellman | ... | Travis | |
| Brett Kelley | ... | Little Rob | |
| Clarice Taylor | ... | Esther | |
| Frankie Faison | ... | Joseph | |
| R. Lee Ermey | ... | Dick Mead | |
| Richard Hamilton | ... | Doc Evans | |
| Karen Kirschenbauer | ... | Mrs. Evans | |
| Carter McNeese | ... | Storekeeper Wilson | |
| Dean Whitworth | ... | Tom Clemmons |
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Rated PG-13 for sensuality.Parents Guide:
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114 minLanguage:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby DigitalCertification:
Iceland:12 | France:Unrated | Germany:12 | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | Norway:10 (1993) | Peru:14 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13Fun Stuff
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The cow is named "Clarice", which was the name of Jodie Foster's character in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: At the meeting when Sommersby suggests growing tobacco, he asks someone how many years he had been sharecropping. Sharecropping only began in America after the Civil War when landowners had no slaves and no money to pay workers. moreFAQ
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This is a sweet film with noble causes and a grand love story. I've seen it umm, 4 times? now... An improbable story, but moral, epic, just after the civil war, of an imposter southern gentleman returning to his run down plantation, wife, child, and joining all together, black and white, to bring a tobacco farm to being, against great odds, and prosperity to the town.
But the man he is posing as must be prosecuted as a criminal... the imposter can continue the ruse and die for the crime, or confess his true identity, and undo his love, his work, his community. He must prove to the court that he is indeed Jack Sommersby, and must extract Fosters (his wife's) testimony, against her will, that he is Jack Sommersby, because as Jack, he will die. A few grand lines... when Foster must say that he is indeed her husband, that she never loved "Jack the way I loved you" and Gere, in his cell, asks her to be there at his hanging "I can do this thing if you are there."
I've enjoyed it each time I've seen it, and it brings grand tears each time.