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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SOLDIER'S HOME (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 9781569944370
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1569944377
Label: Monterey Video
Manufacturer: Monterey Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Monterey Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Running Time: 41 minutes
Sales Rank: 49849
Studio: Monterey Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
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Product Description:
Harold Krebs (Richard Backus) went off to fight World War I the war to end all wars. Then he came home and found himself wishing it had never ended. To Ernest Hemingway (Pulitzer Prize Winner) the hardest part of the war was coming home. This is the essence of Soldier's Home -a story with many similarities to the recent experience of our veterans.Harold finds he doesn't fit in anymore. He's outgrown his old life and now needs peace and quiet to work things out for himself. Yet he's pressured by his loving but misunderstanding mother (Nancy Marchand: The Sopranos ) to rejoin a community in which he feels alien.An intense a personal character study from the giant of American Literature Harold discovers going home is never easy-and maybe it isn't even possible.System Requirements: Running Time 41 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 012233396027 Manufacturer No: 339602
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Rating: - Best Hemingway on Film
While there is a movie of almost every novel Hemingway published in his lifetime, this gem is heads above any other film version of his fiction.
Soldier's Home is a short story based on a World War I veteran's homecoming to his small Oklahoma town, but most recognize the town as as Hemingway's Oak Park, and some of the familial tension as based on his own. The Nick Adams stories of the same period were more identifiably autobiographical; the transposition to Oklahoma with a differently ... Read More
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