Leelee Sobieski in A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

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Writers of serious fiction are notorious for their personality quirks, commonly seen to be irascible, opinionated, impatient, intolerant, and drunk. The author whose individual and family turmoil provides the dramatic grist for A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (1998) is an articulate war hero who has turned his battlefield experiences into a lucrative, ego-swelling career as a man’s-man novelist. His arrogance and proud iconoclasm serve him and his family well while living as American expatriates in Paris. When the wordsmith is forced to move back to the States with his wife, son, and sexually blossoming daughter, real-world conflicts take precedence over the plot points of his manuscripts.