Coming Home (Blu-ray) R

A man who believed in war! A man who believed in nothing! And a woman who believed in both of them!
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 18, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1978
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1978 - Best Actor: Jon Voight
Academy Awards 1978 - Best Actress: Jane Fonda
Academy Awards 1978 - Best Original Screenplay: Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones & Waldo Salt
Cannes 1978 - Best Actor: Jon Voight

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 5,156
Rating: B -- Though well acted by Jon Voight and Jane Fonda (who won Oscars), Coming Home is one of Hal Ashby's weakest films, a middlebrow melodrama that wears its political message on its sleeves. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Feb 8, 2008
Miss Fonda continues her gallery of sensitive portrayals, Dern is absolutely chilling when he confronts the lovers, Voigt is superb. Despite their efforts and the knowing direction of Hal Ashby, the overall effect is as depressing as the war itself. Full Review
Associated Press
Mar 29, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- A powerful film about love and war. Oscars for the leads and Bruce Dern deservedly nominated.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
Dec 19, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- The performances, undeniably appealing, were deservedly praised, Dern and Voight coming off best. Full Review
TV Guide
Oct 31, 2007
[D]irected with shaggy ambience by Hal Ashby.
Premiere
Nov 1, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- A wonderful movie with stellar performances; though Dern is a bit of a caricature.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Sep 6, 2007
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. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 31, 2007

Product Description:

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.

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  • UPC: 738329148423
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