States and Canada and $90 million overseas, with a worldwide gross of $140 million against a budget of $30 million. Critical reception Sommersby received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, gives the film an approval rating of 63% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's consensus states: "Sommersby stumbles as a consistently compelling mystery, but typically solid work from Jodie Foster and Richard Gere fuels an engaging romance." Critics praised the acting and chemistry of the two leads, Gere and Foster, but criticised the ending of the film. Related stories Sommersby is based on the French film The Return of Martin Guerre which in turn is based on the true story of Martin Guerre. The same basic theme was used in a 1997 episode of The Simpsons, "The Principal and the Pauper," when it turns out that Principal Seymour Skinner is actually Armin Tamzarian (a delinquent orphan from New Orleans) who assumed the identity of Sergeant Seymour Skinner when the latter was missing and assumed dead. When the real Seymour Skinner returns home, the townspeople turn against him, discovering that for all of his faults, Armin Tamzarian is actually a better "Seymour Skinner" than the real one. The episode's working title was Skinnersby, in reference to the film. In the 1946 British war drama, The Captive Heart, the protagonist, a Czech army captain (played by Michael Redgrave) assumes the identity of a dead British officer, in hopes of avoiding being returned to Dachau concentration camp. The 1957 film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, has a protagonist (played by William Holden) who has assumed the identity of his dead commanding officer in the hope of receiving better treatment as a prisoner of war. In Libel (a 1959 film, and a 1935 play), Sir Mark Loddon is accused of being an imposter by Buckenham, with whom he was a POW during the war. They had shared quarters with Wellney, who had borne a resemblance to Loddon and at times pretended to be him. Buckenham alleges that Loddon is in fact Wellney impersonating the baronet. Loddon sues for libel but his case is hampered by memory loss, so that his wife, and even Loddon himself, start to doubt his identity. Similarly, in Mad Men, Richard "Dick" Whitman goes to war in Korea and his commanding officer, Lt. Donald "Don" Draper, is killed in