Coming Home (1978)
- Starring:
- Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, (more)
- Director(s):
- Hal Ashby
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Category:
- Romance
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Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when her gung-ho Marine husband Bob (Bruce Dern) heads to Vietnam in 1968, proper wife Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at the V.A. hospital where her new friend Vi (Penelope Milford) works. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a former high-school classmate and Marine who has returned from 'Nam a bitter paraplegic. As their relationship grows, Sally sees the effect of the war on the soldiers after they come back, inspiring her to rethink her priorities; Luke's spirits begin to lift, and a hospital tragedy helps focus his anger toward meaningful protest. After a Hong Kong visit with her increasingly withdrawn husband, Sally finds a love and companionship with Luke that she had never known with her husband. Once Bob comes home with his own injury, however, the three must find a way to deal with a changing world and with a system that betrayed the men fighting for it. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 127 mins
Complete Cast:
- Jane Fonda - Sally Hyde
- Bruce Dern - Captain Bob Hyde
- Penelope Milford - Viola Munson
- Cornelius H. Austin, Jr. - Corny
- Tony Santoro - Porsche Policeman
- Olivia Cole - Corrine
- Teresa Hughes - Nurse De Groot
- Arthur Rosenberg - Bruce
- Gwen van Dam - Mrs. Harris
- Mary Gregory - Martha Vickery
- Stacey Pickren - Sophie
- James G. Richardson - Marine at Party
- Ron Amador - Beany
- Rita Taggart - Johnson
- Sally Frei - Connie
- Marc McClure - Highschool Class President
- Pat Corley - Harris
- Jon Voight - Luke Martin
- Robert Ginty - Sgt. Dink Mobley
- Robert Carradine - Bill Munson
- Beeson Carroll - Captain Carl Delise
- David Clennon - Tim
- Danny Tucker - Monty
- Mary Jackson - Fleta Wilson
- Ken Augustine - Ken
- Gary Lee Davis - Marine Recruiter
- Willie Tyler - Virgil
- Bruce French - Dr. Lincoln
- Jonathan Banks - Marine at Party
- Kathleen Miller - Kathy Delise
- Dennis Rucker - Marine at Party
- Charles Cyphers - Pee Wee
- Richard Lawson - Pat
- Director(s):
- Hal Ashby
- Writer(s):
- Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd, Robert Jones
- Producer(s):
- Jerome Hellman
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Adult Situations)
- Categories:
- Romance
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- 1978 - Coming Home - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- 1978 - Coming Home - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- 1978 - Coming Home - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Actor
- 1978 - Coming Home - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Actress
- 1978 - Coming Home - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Picture
- 1978 - Coming Home - National Board of Review - Best Actor
- 1978 - Coming Home - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Actor
