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Regeneration

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Regeneration

R

Released Aug 28, 1997

1h 36m

War

Drama

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Lt. Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby), a poet and war veteran, is facing court-martial for publicly decrying British conduct in World War I. His poet friend Robert Graves (Dougray Scott) pulls strings to get Sassoon placed in a psychiatric war hospital in Scotland, where soldiers are to be swiftly rehabilitated and sent back into battle. There, Sassoon meets a sympathetic doctor (Jonathan Pryce) and also Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce), whom he encourages to pursue poetry as a form of wartime therapy.

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Globe and Mail

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 12, 2002

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Almar Haflidason

BBC.com

Rated: 5/5

Apr 17, 2001

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Rated: 3/5

Jan 1, 2000

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 3/5

Aug 9, 2005

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Leonard Schwarz

Palo Alto Weekly

Rated: 2/4

May 20, 2003

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Harvey S. Karten

Compuserve

Rated: 7/10

Jan 1, 2000

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Jonathan Pryce and Jonny Lee Miller shine in this film. Tanya Allen did not think highly of her role in this, but she is a fantastic actress and does really good.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/28/25

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BEHIND THE LINES (1997)

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02/14/23

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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A sad, lyrical, and lovely film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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When compared with the book it is based on, there is a lot of area where this movie could have gone and didn't, but as a film itself it is a very good one. Sad that it was overshadowed by the other war movies that came out at the time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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I love the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Sigfried Sassoon. I first saw this film soon after I experienced a terrible loss at a young age, and I'll never forget the anguished cry of the naked man in the wilderness....I've felt that before, too. In war or in peace, the frailty of perspective is understood by those who hunger for even the simplest of human connection....the death of chivalry gave way to the beginning of the darkest century man has thus experienced.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Synopsis

Lt. Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby), a poet and war veteran, is facing court-martial for publicly decrying British conduct in World War I. His poet friend Robert Graves (Dougray Scott) pulls strings to get Sassoon placed in a psychiatric war hospital in Scotland, where soldiers are to be swiftly rehabilitated and sent back into battle. There, Sassoon meets a sympathetic doctor (Jonathan Pryce) and also Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce), whom he encourages to pursue poetry as a form of wartime therapy.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Producer: Peter R. Simpson
Screenwriter: Pat Barker, Allan Scott
Distributor: Artisan Entertainment
Production Co: Norstar Entertainment Inc.
Rating: R (Some War-Related Images|Sexuality|Language)
Genre: War, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 28, 1997, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 8, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $19.3K
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Dolby, Surround

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