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Both Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for their performances in Coming Home, a profoundly moving 1978 flick dealing with the aftereffects of the Vietnam War. Fonda, feeling isolated while her hawkish husband (Bruce Dern) is away in Vietnam, follows a friend's example and volunteers at a veteran's hospital. There she is reacquainted with Voight, an old friend who has returned from the war as a paraplegic. Lonely and disconnected from her husband, Fonda finds love--and fulfilling sex--with Voight. The sex scenes, very steamy for the time, are still provocative. This mature love story is about expanding your horizons, and is both moving and thoughtful. Director Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude) does succumb to melodrama on occasion, but these are forgivable slips. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com
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Perhaps the most powerful picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War, Coming Home earned eight Academy Award nominations and three Oscars: Best Actress (Jane Fonda), Best Actor (Jon Voight) and Best Screenplay. Hailed by critics as dazzling, gripping and urforgettable, it is a heart-rending examination of a critical period in American history and an uncompromising, extraordinarily moving film.
When Marine Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern) leaves for Vietnam, his wife, Sally (Fonda) volunteers at a local hospital. There she meets Luke Martin (Voight), a former sergeant whose war injury has left him a paraplegic. Embittered with rage and filled with frustration, Luke finds new hope and confidence through his growing intimacy with Sally. The relationship also transforms Sally’s feeling about life, love and the horrors of war. And when, wounded and disillusioned, Sally’s husband returns home, all three must grapple with the full impact of a brutal, distant war that has changed their lives forever.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a great movie, with wonderful performances, but is severely let down by the terrible quality of the DVD. The picture is very grainy and the soundtrack crackly and indistinct. (I had to turn on the subtitles to make out what was being said.) It was like watching through a net curtain with cotton wool in your ears.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Great moving movie, looking at what I suppose could be a very common aspect of war, but from an original aspect. Great soundtrack, that has been linked to the storyline very well. I certainly would like to be able to get a CD of the soundtrack. Very much recommended
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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What a great movie - can't believe I'd never even heard of it before last week. Why is it not still in circulation?
The sound quality is the only thing that let's it down, to be honest it is terrible, but the storyline and filming are first class.
Obviously the film is quite dated now, but Luke Martin (played by Jon Voight)is just gorgeous and shines throughout the film.
When we first meet Luke he is stuck in the VA hospital, strapped face down on a bed and roaming the wards with the aid of two sticks. He is obviously upset and angry at not being looked after properly (the hospital is understaffed) - he complains of not being bathed often enough or having his urine bag emptied and is probably frustrated with being stuck in a hospital bed for so long because of his injury.
This is when he first meets Sally (Jane Fonda) and she gets to see the full strength his anger as he beats up a medicine trolley with his stick!
However, as soon as Luke gets his freedom and is given a wheelchair he becomes a new man - he is mobile again. From then on his relationship with Sally intensifies and they get closer and closer until the day her husband returns from Vietnam...
Please watch this film, it is brillaint and most of the issues are still relevant today.
The sound quality is the only thing that let's it down, to be honest it is terrible, but the storyline and filming are first class.
Obviously the film is quite dated now, but Luke Martin (played by Jon Voight)is just gorgeous and shines throughout the film.
When we first meet Luke he is stuck in the VA hospital, strapped face down on a bed and roaming the wards with the aid of two sticks. He is obviously upset and angry at not being looked after properly (the hospital is understaffed) - he complains of not being bathed often enough or having his urine bag emptied and is probably frustrated with being stuck in a hospital bed for so long because of his injury.
This is when he first meets Sally (Jane Fonda) and she gets to see the full strength his anger as he beats up a medicine trolley with his stick!
However, as soon as Luke gets his freedom and is given a wheelchair he becomes a new man - he is mobile again. From then on his relationship with Sally intensifies and they get closer and closer until the day her husband returns from Vietnam...
Please watch this film, it is brillaint and most of the issues are still relevant today.
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A flawed film. But also a film of tremendous grace, power, and...
The flaws; Bruce Dern's character is criminally underdeveloped, and comes off more as a cliché than the other two leads, which damages the power of the films climax. Read more
Published 12 months ago by K. Gordon
very bad DVD-presentation
Please be warned: while the picture quality is ok, the soundtrack is indeed very, very bad. It's as it if had been copied from a 20-year-old VHS-videotape. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ralf Bader
A Moving Indictment of War
This is a sensitive and intelligent depiction of the fallout of war. It made me think how these problems must be going on in the lives of injured veterans of the war in Afghanistan... Read more
Published on 10 May 2010 by William Cohen
Coming Home - A Film of it's Time
Coming Home is very much a film of it's time and packs a powerful anti-war punch. If you are from that generation it speaks volumes. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2010 by GJP
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