This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
This Boy's Life
1993
7.1/10
American Pastoral
2016
6.2/10
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
7.1/10
The Ice Storm
1997
6.9/10
There Will Be Blood
2007
8.1/10
I Smile Back
2015
6.1/10
The Nest
2020
6.1/10
Beautiful Boy
2018
7.6/10
The Tender Bar
2021
6.6/10
Rocks
2019
6.6/10
We the Animals
2018
6.4/10
Nocturnal Animals
2016
7.4/10
Little Boy Blue
1997
6.1/10
The Safety of Objects
2002
6.5/10
Room
2015
8.0/10
The Marsh King's Daughter
2023
6.4/10
Swimming Pool
2003
6.5/10
Spider
2002
6.6/10
Homefront
2013
6.9/10
Dear Zoe
2022
6.5/10
Absolute Power
1997
6.659/10
