A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed 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.

The movie A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, released in 1998, features 19 songs from artists like Canned Heat, Tito Puente, Enrico Macias and Dalida. What is your favorite song from A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries?

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Songs from A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

Goin' up the Country

Canned Heat

La Vie en Rose

Amarra el porto en la dura

Tito Puente

Dominique

Mon coeur d'attache

Enrico Macias

Ciao amore ciao

Dalida

Teenie Weenie Boppie

France Gall

Voi che sapete

Anthony Roth Costanzo

O mio babbino caro

Anthony Roth Costanzo

Salome

Hildegard Behrens and Wiener Philharmoniker (as The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)

Let It Be

Dommage

Graeme Allwright

Ain't No Sunshine

Di Doo Dah

Jane Birkin

Fame

David Bowie

Rubber Bullets

10CC

Fireball

Deep Purple

Wild Thing

Everything I Own

Bread

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