Richard Gere
John Robert "Jack" Sommersby
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- PG-131993 · Drama · 1h 52m
Sommersby is a 1993 period romantic drama directed by Jon Amiel from a screenplay written by Nicholas Meyer and Sarah Kernochan, adapted from the historical account of the 16th century French peasant Martin Guerre.
Feb 5, 1993 · Sommersby: Directed by Jon Amiel. With Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Lanny Flaherty, Wendell Wellman. A farmer returns home from the Civil War, but his wife begins to suspect that the man is an impostor.
- (23K)
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Jon Amiel
- 1993-02-05
Reverend Powell. A man returns to his home town after a lengthy absence spent fighting in the US Civil War. Although his apparent character transformation arouses his wife's and others'...
- (27)
- Jon Amiel
- PG-13
- Richard Gere
Feb 5, 1993 · Roger Ebert criticizes the film Sommersby, a remake of The Return of Martin Guerre, for its implausible plot and melodramatic ending. He argues that the film fails to capture the original's subtlety and authenticity, and that the American setting and language are not enough to improve the story.
A farmer returns home from the Civil War, but his wife begins to suspect that the man is an impostor. 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, believed killed in the Civil War.
Sommersby. Richard Gere and Academy Award winner Jodie Foster star in this romantic story of a man who comes home from the United States' Civil War a deeply changed man. Seven years have passed since Jack Sommersby (Gere) left as a soldier, and the war has been over for two years.
A man returns to his home town after a lengthy absence spent fighting in the US Civil War. Although his apparent character transformation arouses his wife's and others' suspicions, everyone is delighted when his tobacco-growing scheme is profitable for the whole town.
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