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Coming Home (1978)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:17

Rotten:4

Average Rating:7.4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: When Sally Hyde's (Jane Fonda) husband, a ramrod-straight marine captain, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), is sent to Vietnam, she leaves the isolated world of the officer's quarters and begins volunteer... When Sally Hyde's (Jane Fonda) husband, a ramrod-straight marine captain, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), is sent to Vietnam, she leaves the isolated world of the officer's quarters and begins volunteer social work at the veterans hospital. There her unthinking support of the war and her blindness to its effects are challenged by meeting the crippled men struggling to recover, psychologically as well as physically, from their time in country. Many, like Luke Martin (Jon Voight), now a paraplegic, are embittered and full of unfocused, uncontrollable rage, which he takes out on the prim, controlled Sally. Interestingly, they went to the same large high school, but she was a pretty, popular cheerleader type and he was just a guy in the back of the class. Gradually, as she changes politically (always signaled by changes in hair and fashion) and he recovers emotionally, they become friends and then lovers. This causes a sexual awakening in Sally that furthers her transformation from a repressed wife to an independent woman. Then her husband comes home. Hal Ashby's film, with its classic rock soundtrack and lush photography by Haskell Wexler, submerged its politics in a warm nostalgia, although it was made just a few years after the war ended. Still, its theme of individual transformation, both political and sexual, struck a chord with baby boomer audiences who all felt, to varying degrees, that they had done the same thing. [More]

Starring: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Robert Carradine

Starring: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Robert Carradine, Penelope Milford, Robert Ginty, Charles Cyphers, Mary Jackson, Tresa Hughes, Kenneth Augustine

Director: Hal Ashby

Director: Hal Ashby
Screenwriter: Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones
Producer: Jerome Hellman

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03/17/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Though well acted by Jon Voight and Jane Fonda (who won Oscars), Coming Home is one of Hal Ashby's weakest films, a sappy middlebrow melodrama that wears on its sleeves its leftist politics toward the Vietnam War and its victim-vets.

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02/08/08
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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The film has less to do with politics, women's or otherwise, than with a very conventional notion of the redemptive power of mother love. Which would be all right if director Hal Ashby had managed to mount it effectively.

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10/31/07
Dave Kehr
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The performances, undeniably appealing, were deservedly praised, Dern and Voight coming off best.

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10/31/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Coming Home is in general an excellent Hal Ashby film which illuminates the conflicting attitudes on the Vietnam debacle from the standpoint of three participants.

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10/31/07
Variety Staff
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A wonderful movie with stellar performances; though Dern is a bit of a caricature.

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09/06/07
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Cliché piles on cliché to the strains of a garbled '60s soundtrack, but the movie's ending goes some way to recognising its failure. Fonda is magnificent.

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06/18/05
Jules Brenner
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04/27/05
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

A powerful film about love and war. Oscars for the leads and Bruce Dern deservedly nominated.

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12/18/04
Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith
Nolan's Pop Culture Review

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11/04/04
Jake Euker
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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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02/22/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Ashby here soft soaps the issue of Vietnam and America's part in it by giving us merely a diluted and melodramatic love story.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment 1 Comment
05/24/03
Film4

Slowly, disastrously, it reveals its true identity as a three-sided love story about two Vietnam veterans and the one woman who loves them both.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
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Rob Vaux
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08/07/02
Philip Martin
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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08/06/02
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

A convincing meditation on the scars the Vietnam War left on the bodies, minds, and souls of many soldiers and civilians.

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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