In Love and War (1996 film)

In Love and War
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Attenborough
Produced by	Richard Attenborough
Written by	Henry S. Villard James Nagel Allan Scott Dimitri Villard Clancy Sigal Anna Hamilton Phelan
Starring	Sandra Bullock Chris O'Donnell Mackenzie Astin Margot Steinberg
Music by	George Fenton
Cinematography	Roger Pratt
Edited by	Lesley Walker
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release dates	December 18, 1996 (1996-12-18)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Italian
Box office	$25,372,294

In Love and War is a 1996 romance drama film based on the book, Hemingway in Love and War by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin, and Margot Steinberg. Its action takes place during the First World War and is based on the wartime experiences of the writer Ernest Hemingway. It was directed by Richard Attenborough. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

This film is largely based on Hemingway's real-life experiences in the First World War as a young ambulance-driver in Italy. He was wounded and sent to a military hospital, where he shared a room with Villard (who later wrote the book the movie is based on) and they were nursed by Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway and Kurowsky fell strongly in love, but somehow the relationship didn't work out.

The film—apparently in a deliberate attempt to capture what the director called Hemingway's "emotional intensity"—takes liberties with the facts. In real life, unlike the movie, the relationship was probably never consummated, and the couple did not meet again after Hemingway left Italy.^[2]

Hemingway, deeply affected by his romantic relationship with Kurowsky, later wrote several stories about it, including A Farewell to Arms.

Cast

Sandra Bullock as Agnes von Kurowsky
Chris O'Donnell as Ernest 'Ernie' Hemingway
Mackenzie Astin as Henry Villard
Margot Steinberg as Mabel 'Rosie' Rose
Alan Bennett as Porter
Ingrid Lacey as Elsie 'Mac' MacDonald
Emilio Bonucci as Dr. Domenico Caracciolo
Terence Sach as Porter
Carlo Croccolo as Town Mayor
Tara Hugo as Katherine 'Gumshoe' De Long
Gigi Vivan as Italian Child
Giuseppe Bonato as Grandfather
Allegra Di Carpegna as Loretta Cavanaugh
Diane Witter as Adele Brown
Mindy Lee Raskin as Charlotte Anne Miller
Tracy Hostmyer as Ruth Harper
Tim McDonell as The Adjutant (Tenente Alberte)

Reception

The film received extremely negative reviews from critics, as it currently holds an 11% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 27 reviews. Stephen Holden in The New York Times called the film "a generic historical romance and older woman-younger man fable of sexual initiation too muted for either character to come to life".^[3]

Box office

The movie performed well at the box office.^[4]

References

↑ "Berlinale: 1997 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
↑ The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/04/specials/hemingway-diliberto.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "In Love and War: A Mythical Hemingway In a Blur of Muted Love". Retrieved April 20, 2014.
↑ "Weekend Box-Office Derby Appears Too Close to Call". Los Angeles Times. 1997-01-27. Retrieved 2012-05-31.

External links

Ernest Hemingway

Bibliography

Novels

The Torrents of Spring (1926)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
To Have and Have Not (1937)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Non-fiction

Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Green Hills of Africa (1935)

Posthumous

Short stories

"Indian Camp" (1925)
"The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925)
"The End of Something" (1925)
"The Three-Day Blow" (1925)
"The Battler" (1925)
"A Very Short Story" (1925)
"Soldier's Home" (1925)
"The Revolutionist" (1925)
"Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" (1925)
"Cat in the Rain" (1925)
"Out of Season" (1925)
"Cross Country Snow" (1925)
"My Old Man" (1925)
"Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)
"A Canary for One" (1926)
"Fifty Grand" (1927)
"Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
"The Killers" (1927)
"The Undefeated" (1927)
"Che Ti Dice La Patria?" (1927)
"In Another Country" (1927)
"On the Quai at Smyrna" (1930)
"Fathers and Sons" (1932)
"A Day's Wait" (1933)
"The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
"A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
"The Capital of the World" (1936)
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)

Short story
collections

Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
In Our Time (1925)
Men Without Women (1927)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)

Poetry

88 Poems (1979)
Complete Poems

Letters and
journalism

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981)
Dateline: Toronto (1985)
The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)

Adaptations

The Sun Also Rises	1957 film 1984 film Opera The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Ballet

"The Killers"	1946 film 1956 film 1964 film Bukowski short story

A Farewell to Arms	1932 film 1957 film 1966 TV series

To Have and Have Not	1944 film The Breaking Point (1950) The Gun Runners (1958) Captain Khorshid (1987)

For Whom the Bell Tolls	1943 film 1965 TV series Metallica song

The Old Man and the Sea	1958 film 1990 miniseries 1999 film

Other film adaptations	The Macomber Affair (1947) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) Islands in the Stream (1977)