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Sommersby. 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. Based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre, the film stars Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, with Bill ...
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
Sommersby stumbles as a consistently compelling mystery, but typically solid work from Jodie Foster and Richard Gere fuels an engaging romance. A man returns to his home town after a lengthy ...
- (27)
- Jon Amiel
- PG-13
- Richard Gere
Feb 5, 1993 · Roger Ebert criticizes the remake of "The Return of Martin Guerre" as a plot that does not work in the American Civil War setting. He finds the deception and romance unconvincing and the courtroom scene absurd.
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. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people ...
Watch Sommersby | Disney+. 19931h 53m. RomanceMysteryDrama. GET DISNEY+. After six years as a civil war P.O.W., a kinder, more thoughtful confederate soldier returns to his farm and the wife who'd believed he was dead. A disappointed suitor reveals that the soldier is an impostor, and that the real Sommersby is wanted for murder.
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Feb 5, 1993 · Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel ...
