A 1996 romantic drama directed by Richard Attenborough that follows the love story of Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) and Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock) and its inspiration for A Farewell to Arms.
The movie also stars Mackenzie Astin, Margot Steinberg, Alan Bennett, Ingrid Lacey, Carlo Croccolo, Vincenzo Nicoli, Kay Hawtrey, George Rossi, and Nora Reid.
It was released on December 18, 1996.
Tropes for the film:
- The Film of the Book: Based on the novel Hemingway in Love and War by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel.
- Historical Domain Character:
- Ernest Hemingway, future writer who serves in WWI.
- Agnes von Kurowsky, inspiration for A Farewell to Arms.
- I Want My Mommy!: Agnes, a Red Cross nurse in WWI Italy, says that Italian men "respect their wives. They spoil their mistresses. But the only women they love are their mothers". the scene immediately cuts to an Italian soldier screaming for his mother as he dies horribly on the battlefield.
- Tagline: "In war they found each other...In each other they found love...".
