Sommersby

Seven years after leaving to fight in the Civil War, released prisoner Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) returns home to Tennessee and his wife Jodie Foster. But he is a changed man, no longer the brutal, bad businessman. Instead, he is a new man in all senses of the words. But is he really Sommersby?, Richard Gere as a Civil War soldier and Jodie Foster as the wife who had presumed him dead. Judge Isaacs: James Earl Jones. Orin Meecham: Bill Pullman. Rev. Powell: William Windom. Jon Amiel directed., Seven years after leaving to fight in the Civil War, released prisoner Jack Sommersby returns home to Tennessee and his wife Laurel . But he is a changed man; no longer the brutal, bad businessman. Instead, he is a new man in all senses of the words. But is he really Sommersby? Jon Amiel’s take on The Return Of Martin Guerre is better than most Hollywood remakes of foreign films and also refuses to kowtow to audience expectation at the end., Romantic period drama about a man who returns to his home town after a lengthy absence spent fighting in the 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. But just as he is settling into an idyllic routine with his family, he is accused of the murder of a man killed many years before., Jack Sommersby is a wealthy landowner who returns to his small cotton farming town of Vine Hill three years after the Civil War’s end. The defeated Confederate soldier is ready to resume his past life with his young wife Laurel. Thinking her husband long dead, however, Laurel has become engaged to Orin Meecham, an arrangement she quickly calls off, enraging and embittering Orin., Seven years after leaving to fight in the Civil War, released prisoner Jack Sommersby returns home to Tennessee and his wife Laurel. But he is a changed man; no longer the brutal, bad businessman. Instead, he is a new man in all senses. But is he really Sommersby? Jon Amiel’s take on French movie The Return of Martin Guerre is a superior Hollywood remake of a foreign-language film., Based on the French film The Return of Martin Guerre, Sommersby is the story of a presumed-dead Confederate soldier (Richard Gere) who returns home to his wife (Jodie Foster). Neither his wife nor his friends can quite believe the changes the Civil War has made on the soldier, and soon several people begin to wonder if he is indeed the same man or if he is an imposter., Richard Gere as a Civil War soldier and Jodie Foster as the wife who had presumed him dead.