Sommersby Director: Jon Amiel Cast: Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Lanny Flaherty, James Earl Jones
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- DVD Release Date: 09/21/1999
- Original Release: 1993
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- Sales Rank: 9,168
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Features
Interactive menus; Theatrical trailer; Scene access; Languages & subtitles; Subtitles: English & Français
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Side #1 -- Standard
0. Jump To A Scene
1. Homeward Bound(Credits) [4:22]
2. Welcomed In Vine Hill [3:58]
3. A Family Reunited [2:38]
4. "Ain't ActingYourself,Jack" [5:41]
5. This Man In My Kitchen [3:56]
6. Sizing Up The Farm [4:21]
7. Getting This Close [5:53]
8. Small Foot, Large Idea [9:26]
9. Working The Farm [1:58]
10. Jack Returns; Planting [2:55]
11. Seeds Grow [3:23]
12. Tale Of A Schoolteacher [2:12]
13. Good News From Laurel [1:19]
14. Bad News For Jack [3:17]
15. "But You've Known All Along" [3:40]
16. "May God Strike Me Dead" [2:22]
17. Night Readers [4:00]
18. Brawl In The Barn [2:24]
19. Harvest Time [3:11]
20. Arrested [2:55]
21. The Trial Begins [3:16]
22. Orin's Offer [2:11]
23. The Man In Question [4:49]
24. A Surprise Witness [2:08]
25. Jack's Rebuttal [4:11]
26. From Laurel's Heart [6:33]
27. "I Knew Horace Townsend" [4:53]
28. "Always You" [3:04]
29. With Each Other [4:35]
30. End Credits [3:35]
Side #2 -- Widescreen
0. Jump To A Scene
1. Homeward Bound (Credits) [4:22]
2. Welcomed In Vine Hill [3:58]
3. A Family Reunited [2:38]
4. "Ain't Acting Yourself, Jack" [5:41]
5. This Man In My Kitchen [3:56]
6. Sizing Up The Farm [4:21]
7. Getting This Close [5:53]
8. Small Foot, Large Idea [9:26]
9. Working The Farm [1:58]
10. Jack Returns; Planting [2:55]
11. Seeds Grow [3:23]
12. Tale Of A Schoolteacher [2:12]
13. Good News From Laurel [1:19]
14. Bad News For Jack [3:17]
15. "But You've Known All Along" [3:40]
16. "May God Strike Me Dead" [2:22]
17. Night Readers [4:00]
18. Brawl In The Barn [2:24]
19. Harvest Time [3:11]
20. Arrested [2:55]
21. The Trial Begins [3:16]
22. Orin's Offer [2:11]
23. The Man In Question [4:49]
24. A Surprise Witness [2:08]
25. Jack's Rebuttal [4:11]
26. From Laurel's Heart [6:33]
27. "I Knew Horace Townsend" [4:53]
28. "Always You" [3:04]
29. With Each Other [4:35]
30. End Credits [3:35]
Editorial Reviews
This Americanized remake of the French classic The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) transports the story's setting from the 16th century Gallic countryside to 19th century Tennessee at the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. Richard Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, 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 (Jodie Foster). Thinking her husband long dead, however, Laurel has become engaged to Orin Meecham (Bill Pullman), an arrangement she quickly calls off, enraging and embittering Orin. Soon it becomes evident that his experiences have changed Jack thoroughly. A callous and cruel man widely feared before the war, he is now charming and sensitive, offering financial opportunities to an ex-slave and caring for Laurel and his young son. Jack even persuades the town's citizenry that he can rescue their fortunes by pooling resources and switching Vine Hill's chief crop from cotton to tobacco. Jack's scheme works, but Orin becomes increasingly convinced that Jack is in fact an impostor masquerading as the wealthy Sommersby, a suspicion that the smitten and quickly pregnant Laurel secretly shares. When Jack is arrested and charged with a murder he drunkenly committed years before, the court trial leads to some startling revelations about the past. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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