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Sommersby (1993)
25K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he 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...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, psychological, period piece, suspense, suspenseful, sincere, emotional, social ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
husband wife relationship, mistaken identity, village life, civil war veteran, ku klux klan, post civil war, civil war, american civil war, courtroom drama, death sentence, war veteran, suspicion of murder, haunted by the past, homecoming, presumed dead, courtroom, death penalty, women, mountain, village, fall in love, peasant, u.s. civil war, love, amnesia ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 50s, year 1993, turn of the century, victorian era
Place:
tennessee, southern usa, usa, france, new jersey
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Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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100%
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Similarity:
37%
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Story:
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Style:
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Similarity:
37%
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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