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Coming Home

A man who believed in war! A man who believed in nothing! And a woman who believed in both of them!

1978 · 2h 7m · R Drama, Romance, War
Directed by Hal Ashby

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In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

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83%
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Rotten

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.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

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.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

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.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

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

Time Out

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