Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.
- husband wife relationship
- court case
- war veteran
- ku klux klan
- southern usa
- village life
- return
- peasant
- suspicion of murder
- gallows
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jodie Foster
Laurel Sommersby
Richard Gere
John Robert Sommersby / Horace Townsend
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
- Directed
- Jon Amiel
- Written
- Sarah Kernochan
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 434 ratings
- Studio
- Regency Enterprises, Alcor Films, Le Studio Canal+
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