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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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Globe and Mail Rated: 2.5/4 Apr 12, 2002 Full Review Almar Haflidason BBC.com Rated: 5/5 Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Rated: 3/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Aug 9, 2005 Full Review Leonard Schwarz Palo Alto Weekly Rated: 2/4 May 20, 2003 Full Review Harvey S. Karten Compuserve Rated: 7/10 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member BEHIND THE LINES (1997) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member [font=Tahoma]Full review to come.[/font] Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member A sad, lyrical, and lovely film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member Behind the Lines aka : Regeneration . This Movie is from the 1997 Toronto Film Festival. Its a war movie that shows how bad conditions were in World War I, and what the soldiers had to go thru back in hospitals to get straighten out. Main character in this one is a poet who is an officer who in the end goes back to front lines. Its Ok not one of the best from the film festival. 3 1/2 stars best I can do. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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