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Regeneration

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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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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 08/09/2005
3/5
Leonard Schwarz Palo Alto Weekly 05/20/2003
2/4
Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews 01/01/2000
2.5/4
Although the stories in the film are moving, director Gillies MacKinnon is never able to weave them into a compelling whole. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Darrell S Mar 28 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. See more 03/03/2012 BEHIND THE LINES (1997) See more 03/03/2012 [font=Tahoma]Full review to come.[/font] See more 01/31/2011 A sad, lyrical, and lovely film. See more 01/02/2010 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. See more 12/23/2009 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. See more Read all reviews
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Gillies MacKinnon

Director

Jonathan Pryce

Capt. William Rivers

James Wilby

2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

Jonny Lee Miller

2nd Lt. Billy Prior

Stuart Bunce

2nd Lt. Wilfred Owen

Tanya Allen

Sarah

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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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