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.
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
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Hal Ashby Director
- Jane Fonda as Sally Hyde
- Jon Voight as Luke Martin
- Bruce Dern as Capt. Bob Hyde
- Penelope Milford as Vi Munson
- Robert Carradine as Bill Munson
- Robert Ginty as Sgt. Dink Mobley
- Mary Gregory as Martha Vickery
- Kathleen Miller as Kathy Delise
- Beeson Carroll as Capt. Earl Delise
- Willie Tyler as Virgil
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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.
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.
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.
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