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Sommersby [1993]
from Warner Home Video
starring Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, Lanny Flaherty
directed by Jon Amiel

Features:

• Dubbed
• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

Based on the French film, The Return of Martin Guerre (which itself was based on a famous court case), this 1993 film by director Jon Amiel recasts the same essential story in post-Civil War Tennessee, in a dirt-poor town suffering the effects of the South's loss. Jodie Foster plays Laurel Sommersby, a widow whose husband died in the Civil War--or so everyone thinks. Then one day, Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) strolls back into town and back into Laurel's bed--seemingly a very changed man. Gone is the selfish, nasty guy no one much liked. In his place is a friendly, sensitive and resourceful new Jack who not only rekindles the long-dead fire of his marriage, but revives the entire town. Except for one small catch: he may not actually be Jack Sommersby at all. Beautifully shot by Amiel (with a great assist from cameraman Philippe Rousselot) from a script by Nicholas Meyer and Sarah Kernochan, the film features a sturdy, even flinty performance by Foster and a beguiling one by Gere. Though the ending will squeeze the tear ducts, the film earns those tears. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• interesting
  A rather old movie at this point but enjoyable all the same. Especially for those of us who are fans of either/both of the main actors. No one in particular steals the show in what turns out to be an average-slight above average movie but they all put in decent performances.
  Richard Gere plays Jack Sommersby who returns home after 6yrs. This is after time spent in jail following the civil war. Jodie Foster is his wife who had started to move on and was even talking of marrying one of the other... more info

• Is You Is Or Is You Not My Baby?
  "Sommersby" is both about the cyclical nature of the universe, where matter can be neither created nor destroyed, only changed in state, and a demonstration of that law." Vincent Canby
  I loved this film, hated the ending. A southern man comes home from the Civil War and re-enters his life as Jack Sommersby. His wife, thinking he was indeed dead after 6 six years has promised herself to another. Nothing is as it was, and it never will be again. The old Southern plantation has been looted, and there is... more info

• Sommersby
  “Sommersby” is a very nice, well-acted and well-filmed picture that is spoilt somewhat by what is an almost implausible thing to hinge to the whole plot.

  Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) returns to his Deep South farmstead after serving for the confederation forces in the American Civil War. He has been missing for the past six years and although the rest of the community welcome him back with open arms, he wife, Laurel (Jody Foster) seems less than enthusiastic about his return. The other member of the... more info

• Tragic love story that will bring tears to your eyes
  Set during the Civil war, this tells the story of a man who returns from the war a completely diferent man-literally.It tells of how he falls in love with his 'wife' again-the only one who knows the truth about who he really is.The love story sweeps you away and then reduces you to tears with it's tragic ending.Fantastic for all you romantics out there-but a bit far fetched!

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