Seven years after leaving to fight in the Civil War, released prisoner Jack Sommersby returns home to Tennessee and his wife Laurel. But he is a changed man; no longer the brutal, bad businessman. Instead, he is a new man in all senses. But is he really Sommersby? Jon Amiel's take on French movie The Return of Martin Guerre is a superior Hollywood remake of a foreign-language film.
Sommersby is a Film programme that first aired in 1993 and has been classified a 12 certificate.
