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Regeneration

Play trailer Poster for Regeneration R,  1997,  1h 36m,  War/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 67% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 75% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
67% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 75% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
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 Aug 9, 2005
3/5
Leonard Schwarz Palo Alto Weekly May 20, 2003
2/4
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Jan 1, 2000
2/5
Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews Jan 1, 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
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Cast & Crew

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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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Regeneration

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Movie Info

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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