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Sommersby (1993)
Directed by
Jon Amiel
Tagline:
She knew his face. His touch. His voice. She knew everything about him... But the truth.
Plot outline:
"Sommersby" is a remake of the French film "The Return of Martin Guerre," with Gerard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye in the true story of a 16th-century French peasant who returns home a better person than he was when he left seven years earlier. Could he be an imposter? The American version is set in the Reconstruction era, following the Civil War and stars Richard Gere as the returning Confederate soldier who has been gone six years, with Jodie Foster as his curious wife.
"Sommersby" opens with Gere's character burying a body, then traveling to a small rural town where he claims to be Jack Sommersby, back from the war and several years in prison.
Everyone accepts him readily, if warily - including his wife Laurel, who remembers that he was a cruel man who was drunk when their son was conceived.
But Jack seems to know all about his neighbors, including intimate nicknames. He's kind to Laurel and her son, he comes up with a scheme to improve the economic climate of this sleepy, rural town. It is odd that his feet seem smaller and his signature is not the same. But he is, nonetheless, soon accepted by everyone.
Well, almost everyone.
Leading the opposition is Jack's rival (Bill Pullman), who was planning to marry Laurel. And the local Ku Klux Klan, which disapproves of Jack allowing blacks to farm and purchase some of his land.
Ultimately, Jack is charged with murder and finds that the only defense he might have is to confess that he isn't Jack Sommersby after all. Maybe he is, as some have said, a flimflam artist who masqueraded as a schoolteacher in a nearby town. [source: Chris Hicks, deseretnews.com]
Cast:
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 | |
Stan Kelly | .... | John Green | |
Stephanie Weaver | .... | Mrs. Bundy | |
Khaz B | .... | Eli | |
Josh McLerran | .... | Boy #1 (as Josh McClerren) | |
Mark Williams | .... | Boy #2 | |
Muse Watson | .... | Drifter #1 | |
Paul Austin | .... | K.K.K. #1/Folsom | |
Frank Hoyt Taylor | .... | K.K.K. #2 (as Frank Taylor) | |
Billy L. 'Butch' Frank | .... | K.K.K. #3 (as Billy 'Butch' Frank) | |
Dale Stewart | .... | K.K.K. #4 | |
Jake Cress | .... | Marshal #1 | |
Doug Sloan | .... | Marshall #2 | |
Ray McKinnon | .... | Lawyer Webb | |
Maury Chaykin | .... | Lawyer Dawson | |
Stuart Fallen | .... | Court Bailiff | |
Barry McLerran | .... | Clerk | |
Richard Lineback | .... | Timothy Fry | |
Dr. Michael Gold | .... | Night Clerk | |
Joe Basham | .... | Witness | |
Patrick Morse | .... | Boarding House Manager | |
Joe Neel | .... | Auctioneer | |
Harry T. Daniel | .... | Official |