A young American soldier is wounded by a shell in WWI, losing his arms, legs and eyes as well as his ability to hear, speak or smell. Lying in hospital he is barely able to distinguish if he is awake or dreaming and he relives his story in strange dreams and memories. One day Joe finds a way to communicate with the doctors ...
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REGENERATION (1997)
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The poet Siegfried Sassoon (Wilby), having published a pamphlet opposing the war, has been diplomatically dispatched to Craiglockhart Castle, a military hospital, where pioneering psychiatrist William Rivers (Pryce) tends shell-shocked victims of the trenches. His 'convalescence' brings him into contact with another writer, Wilfred Owen (Bunce), whose poetry Sassoon encourages. Rivers, meanwhile, is heading for a breakdown of his own, brought on less by overwork than his empathy with traumatised
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