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	Institute for the Classical Tradition \| Boston University
		Initial newspaper reviews of the 1993 film Sommersby were mostly unfavorable, and, when discussed by film critics, the film has usually been judged to be a pale imitation of a more important French film, The Return of Martin Guerre.
		This article attempts to show that Sommersby achieves a level of originality by conflating the earlier French film with Homer’s Odyssey and in the process depicting a view of the nature of human identity different from what is found in both its major sources.
		Sommersby operates with a similar model of identity that treats the self as mutable, the outcome of an act of self-legislation.
	www.bu.edu /ict/ijct/search/9/3/rabel.html (150 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Sommersby review
		Co-written by Sarah Kernochan, Sommersby is a Civil War retooling of the 1983 French classic, The Return of Martin Guerre.
		The anamorphic widescreen transfer is representative of the bland color pallet that was used for Sommersby.
		Sommersby is a film that I never really had any interest in seeing.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/sommersby.htm (671 words)

	Filmtracks: Sommersby (Danny Elfman)
		Sommersby: (Danny Elfman) An Americanized story of the soldier who assumes the identity of a comrade and returns to live his life, Sommersby was a Richard Gere project for which Nicholas Meyer had rewritten the story for the Virginia countryside.
		Sommersby would be the only collaboration between Amiel and composer Danny Elfman (Amiel established a working relationship with Christopher Young after this film), and the choice of Elfman was one of intrigue and curiosity at the time.
		The overall stylistic impression given by Sommersby, of course, is one of brooding darkness; while beautiful in their instrumentation and performance, the themes are often anchored by an overbearing bass (whether by performance or added into the mixing of the score in post-production) that causes it to rumble its way across your stereo.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/sommersby.html (754 words)

	Review: Sommersby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The United States Civil War has ended, and Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) is returning home to a farm in ruins and a wife (Jodie Foster) who wishes he was dead.
		Sommersby is based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre, and is one of those rare remakes that does not tarnish the image of its inspiration.
		Sommersby shows that, with good scripting and even better acting, that problem can easily be overcome.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/sommersby.html (496 words)

	Sommersby-- Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He is still the major landholder here, although the land, his plantation house, and most of the people are just about worn out from years of war and Yankee scavenging.
		The Sommersbys' neighbors are flat and featureless; even Orin, who could have been more, degenerates into sanctimony and cross-burning.
		Sommersby is the kind of costumed romance that Hollywood used to churn out regularly, but which is pretty rare these days.
	www.geocities.com /amensoccer/reviews/rvsomm.html (437 words)

	RollingStone.com: Sommersby Review
		Martin Guerre has been Americanized into Jack Sommersby (Gere), a plantation owner, gambler and wife beater who returns home to his run-down brick mansion in Vine Hill, Tennessee, after years of fighting and then rotting in a Yankee prison.
		Laurel Sommersby (Foster) is initially chilly toward her husband.
		Jack's tobacco-growing scheme, requiring the sale of their land to strapped neighbors and former slaves, could be his chance to get rich quick and run.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/_/id/5948135?pageid=rs.ReviewsMovieArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&afl=imdb (827 words)

	"Sommersby" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Laurel Sommersby (Jodie Foster), who has accepted Jack as her long-lost husband, is placed in a very difficult position.
		The subject of race relations runs throughout the film; there's a cross-burning and the beating of a fl man (which has the same feel as the scene in Places in the Heart), and Jack's rival Orin is both a preacher and a KKK rider (thanks, Hollywood!).
		The emotion of the "antihero" plot, in which Jack may or may not be an imposter and either way is a flawed person with some redeeming qualities, was too much for my wife; she was overwhelmed by Laurel's predicament, and couldn't finish the movie.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/sommersby.html (453 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sommersby [1993]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) returns to his Deep South farmstead after serving for the confederation forces in the American Civil War.
		We learn that things in the Sommersby marriage are perhaps not as happy as they seem on the surface to the other villagers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RP46 (907 words)

	Sommersby (1993)
		I also found both the premise and the melodramatic denouement rather difficult to swallow, the later being a contrived attempt to wring a drop or two of poignancy from a saga that ran dry long before the final reel unspooled.
		Sommersby at least escapes the dreaded telemovie look with its matted cinemascope presentation, giving the story the best possible chance of engaging the viewer's imagination.
		Unfortunately, Sommersby ultimately fails on that count, and one explanation may have something to do with the fact that the screenplay was actually based on a French film called Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1982) starring Gerard Dépardieu and Nathalie Baye.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=3426 (1090 words)

	Sommersby - CIA
		Set in the South of the USA just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby (Jodie Foster) is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the war.
		By all accounts, Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions.
		Using the USA civil war as a perfectly good excuse for some shady romantic shenanigans, Sommersby is a lightweight chick flick with pretty girls, pretty men and a variety of southern accents.
	thecia.com.au /reviews/s/sommersby.shtml (248 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Sommersby \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		"Sommersby" is a remake of the French film "The Return of Martin Guerre," released here a decade ago 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.
		"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.
		"Sommersby" is rated PG-13 for violence, profanity and a bit more sex than might be expected with this rating.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1699,00.html (366 words)

	Web Design & Development Books :: Sommersby
		Though without the inclusion of any bonus materials (the studios may consider releasing a special edition perhaps?), the DVD is a must-have for collectors of romantic movies.
		Jack Sommersby has left his small southern town of Vine Hill to fight in the Civil War.
		Then one day, Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) strolls back into town and back into Laurel's bed--but he's a changed man. Gone is the selfish, nasty individual no one much liked.
	www.directorysubmission.net /web-design-development/6302787122/Sommersby.html (954 words)

	Variety.com - 'Sommersby' on vid in Aug.
		"Sommersby" has quietly rung up in excess of $ 47 million at the nation's box office since its release four months ago, and WHV exexexex expect the love story to top $ 50 million by the time video is released.
		For its part, the nine-hour-plus "North & South" averaged a 38 share over six nights for ABC in 1985 and is the "most-requested unreleased video title in the Warner library," according to a news release.
		"Sommersby" is a remake of the French film "The Return of Martin Guerre," and turns on the question of whether a soldier returned from war is really who he says he is.
	www.variety.com /article/VR107164?categoryid=20&cs=1 (236 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Sommersby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Sommersby" is a square peg pounded into a round hole - or, more exactly, a medieval European story that has been unsuccessfully updated to the period of the American Civil War.
		The plot hinges on a deception that was just barely believable when set at the time of the Hundred Years' War, where it could play off the superstition that a man might be transformed by war.
		In "Sommersby," this delicate structure of deception and romance is never convincing in the first place, and although Richard Gere and Jodie Foster do what they can with the characters, the final courtroom scene disintegrates into plot twists so agonizing that all credibility flies away.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930205/REVIEWS/302050303/1023 (469 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Sommersby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		``Sommersby'' is about a Confederate soldier taken prisoner and thought dead who returns to his home town and a hero's welcome, but is he really Jack Sommersby and if he isn't why does his wife pretend he is?
		One of the biggest unanswered questions is why a no-good con artist like Sommersby would suddenly become so noble, heroic and unselfish that the film ends like a passion play.
		The best part of the film is the courtroom drama near the end with James Earl Jones giving a powerful performance as a judge in Sommersby's murder trial.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/sommersby.html (385 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sommersby [1993]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		“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.
		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.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D2YY (967 words)

	Sommersby News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sommersby News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		She's been in her share of perfectly pleasant, PG-rated movies such as ''Anna And The King'', ''Sommersby'' and ''Maverick''.
		The best kisser in Hollywood right now might be the comedy actor Nick Cannon, who appears to be very serious about, and very skilled with, using his lips.
	www.topix.net /movies/sommersby (199 words)

	‘Sommersby’ (PG-13)
		If you're looking for a picturesque romance -- with a little intrigue on the side -- you could do worse than "Sommersby." A Civil War-era love story about deceptions, passions and new beginnings, it gets most of its artillery from the smoochy rapport between Richard Gere and Jodie Foster.
		The shoemaker wonders how Gere's feet went down two sizes since his departure, while Bill Pullman, a sneaky preacher, views Gere's arrival with less than the best of faith.
		This Sommersby, it seems, is too nice, especially when he proposes his extensive land be carved into purchasable tobacco plots for the economically depressed community.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sommersbypg13howe_a0af67.htm (485 words)

	"Sommersby" Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I particularly enjoyed his scene with Jodie Foster where he's waiting for her on the porch and he's got a bucket full of worms to prove a point.
		I also saw him as heroic...he saved the tobacco crop for the subsistance farmers who were participating in a collective cash crop effort.
		I can't help but give credit to Richard Gere's character who also was heroic in that he assumed the Jack Sommersby persona in order that the contract with the farmers not be negated.
	www.billpullman.org /film/sommersby.html (320 words)

	‘Sommersby’ (PG-13)
		A more endearing and far nobler variation on the 15th century tale, the new version springs from the same premise: The neighbors begin to suspect that the returning Confederate is not merely a changed but an altogether different man. And Jack Sommersby (Gere) is just too good to be true.
		Presumed dead after a six-year absence, the cruel and bitter plantation owner seems to have come back from the future as a sensitive new age man.
		Directed a tad languidly by Jon Amiel, "Sommersby" has highbrow pretentions, but it's really an old-fashioned hankie-soaker with Gere and Foster ably jerking tears.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sommersbypg13kempley_a0a35a.htm (337 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Sommersby : Review
		Sommersby, a wealthy landowner who returns to his small cotton farming town of Vine Hill three years after the Civil War's end.
		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.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/32386/review.jhtml (267 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Sommersby [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The quiet and charming beauty of this film combined with the volatility of love and loss brings about a spell of a tale called Sommersby.
		The casting was beautifully done, and even though I'm no great fan of Richard Gere, he did a great job in this film.
		"Sommersby" is a film that will leave you thinking about it and maybe sighing a little too.....enjoy...Laurie --.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D2YY (1089 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Sommersby on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Richard Gere and two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster are a match made for the ages in this period romance rich in mystery, detail and splendid performances.
		Jack must stand trial for his life and the outcome makes one thing sure: you'll remember Sommersby.
		This movie is a wonderful drama/romance set just after the civil war.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=5929 (223 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sommersby at Epinions.com
		They, of course, run into Orin, the disgruntled, hobbled lover, and spill what he had suspected all along, that you really aren't Jack Sommersby after all, but Horatio Hornblower, I mean, um, Horace Townsend.
		1993's Sommersby runs 114 rather languid minutes with little violence or comedy, but lots of romance and drama in a remake of 1982's The Return of Martin Guerre.
		I haven't seen that French film, but Gere probably has not done the Guerre character justice because of the change in setting and more contemporary vision and I suggest checking it out.
	www.epinions.com /content_92185464452 (969 words)

	Sommersby movie info - dvds
		Sommersby is presumed dead, returning to his family two years after the war's end.
		His wife falls in love with him anew; townspeople are suspicious, especially one man who is in love with Laurel Sommersby.
		Jack Sommersby is who he claims to be.
	www.mooviees.com /mt/movie.php?id=3840 (468 words)

	Sommersby (1993)
		His wife has doubts that he is actually her husband.
		Sommersby inspiration features similar heartstrings-tugging scenario, rich characterizations, sensual performances.
		Effective blend of mystery, romance uses similar assumed identity scenario.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=2487 (74 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jodie Foster (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		She achieved undisputed Hollywood stardom and best actress Oscars for her portrayals of a working-class rape victim in The Accused (1988) and an FBI agent on the trail of a serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
		Foster's other films include Bugsy Malone (1976), Carny (1980), Sommersby (1993), Nell (1994), and Anna and the King (1999).
		She began directing features with Little Man Tate (1991), in which she also starred, and has since directed Home for the Holidays (1995).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FosterJod.html (251 words)

	Buy Sommersby on DVD @ Gameplanet Store NZ
		They portray Jack and Laurel Sommersby, whose love grows as suspicion about Jack mounts.
		If he isn?t the man she married, Laurel knows he is the man she always wanted.
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