Sommersby (1993)

Synopsis

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.

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Cast

• Jodie Foster as Laurel Sommersby
• Richard Gere as John Robert Sommersby / Horace Townsend
• Bill Pullman as Orin Meecham
• James Earl Jones as Judge Barry Conrad Issacs
• Lanny Flaherty as Buck
• William Windom as Reverend Powell
• Wendell Wellman as Travis
• Brett Kelley as Little Rob
• Clarice Taylor as Esther
• Frankie Faison as Joseph

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