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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.
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- 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...
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- 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.
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.
Feb 5, 1993 · Directed by Jon Amiel, Sommersby is adapted from the historical account of 16th Century French peasant Martin Guerre. It was previously filmed as The Return of Martin Guerre in 1982. It stars Richard Gere, Jodie Foster and Bill Pullman.
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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.
