History Film / EveryTimeWeSayGoodbye

''Every Time We Say Goodbye'' is an obscure 1986 Israeli-American romantic war drama starring Creator/TomHanks and Cristina Marsillach. Tom Hanks plays David Bradley, an American RAF pilot stationed in Mandatory Jerusalem [[note]](6 years before Israel achieved independence from Great Britain)[[/note]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. His plane gets shot down somewhere in North Africa, and as a result he gets injured. He stays at a hospital in Jerusalem, Israel to recover from his leg injury. After his broken leg is healed, he realizes he only has three days left before returning to Egypt, so he decides to take advantage of the short time he has in Jerusalem. While he's there, he meets and falls in love with Sarah (Cristina Marsillach), a beautiful, shy Israeli woman of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Only one problem: David is not Jewish (his father is a Protestant minister!), and Sarah’s family will do everything in their power to prevent their daughter from seeing David.

** Invoked in VirginTension, in which Sarah’s mom angrily tells her, “You’re no longer my daughter! You’re dead!”

*** Sadly, this is TruthInTelevision for Jewish families, especially Orthodox ones.

* MatzoFever: Both David and Peter are in love with Jewish women (David falls for Sarah, and Peter falls for Victoria)

** [[spoiler: The horrible irony would be that Sarah eventually has sex with David anyway in his hotel room]]

* WhatAnIdiot: See ComicallyMissingThePoint.

The film was a BoxOfficeBomb, making only $278,623 (to this day, it remains to be Hanks’ ''lowest grossing theatrically released film'', according to [[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1137005061/?ref_=bo_tt_gr_1 Box Office Mojo]]). Reviews of the film were [[SoOkItsAverage lukewarm at best]], and the film had a limited release in theaters.

''Every Time We Say Goodbye'' is an obscure 1986 Israeli-American romantic drama starring Creator/TomHanks and Cristina Marsillach. Tom Hanks plays David Bradley, an American RAF pilot stationed in Mandatory Jerusalem [[note]](6 years before Israel achieved independence from Great Britain)[[/note]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. His plane gets shot down somewhere in North Africa, and as a result he gets injured. He stays at a hospital in Jerusalem, Israel to recover from his leg injury. After his broken leg is healed, he realizes he only has three days left before returning to Egypt, so he decides to take advantage of the short time he has in Jerusalem. While he's there, he meets and falls in love with Sarah (Cristina Marsillach), a beautiful, shy Israeli woman of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Only one problem: David is not Jewish (his father is a Protestant minister!), and Sarah’s family will do everything in their power to prevent their daughter from seeing David.

''Every Time We Say Goodbye'' is an obscure 1986 Israeli-American romantic drama starring Creator/TomHanks and Cristina Marsillach. Tom Hanks plays David, an American RAF pilot stationed in Mandatory Jerusalem [[note]](6 years before Israel achieved independence from Great Britain)[[/note]], prior to the United States entering UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. His plane gets shot down somewhere in North Africa, and as a result he gets injured. He stays at a hospital in Jerusalem, Israel to recover from his leg injury. After his broken leg is healed, he realizes he only has three days left before returning to Egypt, so he decides to take advantage of the short time he has in Jerusalem. While he's there, he meets and falls in love with Sarah (Cristina Marsillach), a beautiful, shy Israeli woman of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Only one problem: David is not Jewish (his father is a Protestant minister!), and Sarah’s family will do everything in their power to prevent their daughter from seeing David.

The film was a BoxOfficeBomb, making only $278,623 (to this day, it remains to be Hanks’ ''lowest grossing theatrically released film'', according to [[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1137005061/?ref_=bo_tt_gr_1 Box Office Mojo]]). Reviews of the film were lukewarm at best, and the film had a limited release in theaters.

* MyBelovedSmother: After Sarah’s mom finds out about Sarah going into David’s hotel room and thus becoming “impure”, she does everything in her power to prevent David and Sarah from seeing each other, whether it would be taking away all of Sarah’s clothes from her closet (leaving only her undergarments), so she couldn’t leave the house naked, or stopping David from entering her house to deliver the letter to Sarah, which Sarah’s mom rips into pieces by the way.

* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Averted at first in that Sarah’s father shows more compassion and understanding of Sarah’s relationship with David than her mother does, but then it’s played straight in he makes it clear that if she were to marry David, [[IHaveNoSon then Sarah would be disowned by her family]].

* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Inverted and Subverted. Although Sarah’s father shows more compassion and understanding of Sarah’s relationship with David than her mother, he does make it clear that if she were to marry him, that Sarah would be disowned by her family.

The film was a BoxOfficeBomb, making only $278,623 (to this day, it remains to be Hanks’ ''lowest grossing theatrically released film'', according to [[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1137005061/?ref_=bo_tt_gr_1 Box Office Mojo]]). Reviews of the film were lukewarm at best, and the film had a limited release in theaters. It's notable for being one the few serious movie roles Hanks starred in post-''Film/{{Splash}}''/pre-''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'' when his reputation was more of a comedic actor.