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Coming Home (1978)

Jane Fonda , Jon Voight , Greg Carson , Hal Ashby  |  R |  DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (66 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Norman Jewison, Haskell Wexler
  • Directors: Greg Carson, Hal Ashby
  • Writers: Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, Rudy Wurlitzer, Waldo Salt
  • Producers: Greg Carson, Bruce Gilbert
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Dubbed: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: April 16, 2002
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (66 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005V9HI
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,441 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Coming Home" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Featurettes: "Coming Back Home" and "Hal Ashby: A Man Out Of Time"

Editorial Reviews

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Both Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for their performances in this 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

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Perhaps the most powerful picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War, Coming Home earned eight Academy AwardÂ(r) nominations* and three OscarsÂ(r): Actress (Jane Fonda), Actor (Jon Voight) and Original Screenplay. Hailed by critics as "dazzling" (Rex Reed), "gripping" (Leonard Maltin) and "unforgettable" (Judith Crist), it is a heart-rending examination of a critical period in our nation's history and "an uncompromising, extraordinarily moving film" (Roger Ebert). 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 sergeantwhose 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 feelings 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.

Customer Reviews

It is the unlikely love affair that affirms their life to both of them. Reader  |  7 reviewers made a similar statement
Here she meets Luke Martin, a paraplegic, played by Jon Voight. Linda Linguvic  |  9 reviewers made a similar statement
Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern are all perfect in their roles. HWWoman  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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51 of 54 people found the following review helpful
By HWWoman
Format:DVD
You can read the reviews to find out how moving and real this film is. Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern are all perfect in their roles. Since the soundtrack doesn't seem to be available, I am going to share with you the songs played on the soundtrack so that you can compile your own soundtrack.

They are organized by group.

Happy Viewing and Listening! This is a film not to be missed.

Beatles - Hey Jude

Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin - Call on Me

Tim Buckley - Once I Was

Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to Fly, For What It's Worth

Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today

Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman

Aretha Franklin - Save Me

Richie Havens - Follow

Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression

Jefferson Airplane - White Airplane

Rolling Stones - Out of Time, No Expectations, Jumpin' Jack Flash, My Girl, Ruby Tuesday, Sympathy for the Devil

Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends

Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Most moving of the Viet Nam films by far... October 15, 2004
Format:DVD
I realize that some folks' contempt for Jane Fonda has caused them to feel equal contempt for this movie... Dont let it... Regardless of one's perspective on Fonda's political position(s) over the years, "Coming Home" is nonetheless the most poignant of all the Viet Nam movies.

Made in a period before the subject had been done to death (especially in the 1980s, where pretense, posturing and insincerity reigned), "Coming Home" which, as per its title, takes place almost entirely on American soil, get the mood, and late-60s "look" uncannily correct.

Focusing on a paraplegic vet (Jon Voight) who falls in love with a married and not-worldly army nurse (Fonda) while her officer husband (Bruce Dern) is overseas, the Oscar-winning "Coming Home" is its era's equivalent of 1946's "The Best Years of Our Lives"... Some may consider that blaspemous, but it isn't-- at all.

Too bad this movie seems to be buried now... Is it because of the done-too-much-since-then subject-matter, or is it bias against Miss Fonda? I dont know. But despite all those other Viet Nam films that would come along, this a (rare) classic take on that period-- a period now so long ago.

And long before Voight dun lost his mind.
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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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This is the moving story of a military wife, played by Jane Fonda, who volunteers in a veterans' hospital when her captain husband gets sent to Vietnam. Here she meets Luke Martin, a paraplegic, played by Jon Voight. When she first meets him, he's on a gurney, and when she accidentally bumps into him, his catheter bag is knocked over, embarrassing him so much that he goes into an angry rage and has to be restrained. Eventually, though, she comes to know him and, as his condition improves enough so that he can get a wheelchair, she gradually develops a relationship with him. Through the art of this film, I found myself drawn right into the emotional intensity of the situation and I learned more than I ever wanted to know about the life of a paraplegic.

All the actors are great, including the supporting roles of Bruce Dern as the husband and Penelope Milford as Fonda's friend whose psychotic brother commits suicide. No wonder the film was nominated for eight academy awards in 1979 with those coveted statues going to Fonda and Voight as well as a trio of writers for the screenplay. I applaud the entire production though because it never slipped into maudlin sentimentality. Instead it was a real story the way the Vietnam War affected us all; it was easy to relate to it.

The scenes in the veterans' hospital are particularly upsetting as we watch these young men gradually learn to live with their broken bodies. The audience is not spared the actualities of their care and of their suffering. However, as the film moves on, we get to know the Jon Voight character and the romantic scene between him and Fonda plays as bittersweet reality. Years have now past since the Vietnam War, but this film brings it all back. And it does this without one scene being placed in Vietnam itself. A fine film. Recommended.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars a well chosen movie title, for once
More than about the Vietnam War, it is about those trapped by it. Housewives, husbands, sisters, soldiers, vets, wounded whether in body or soul... Read more
Published 19 days ago by Laia Bárber
5.0 out of 5 stars Coming Home
Saw this movie when I was a teenager and never tire of it. The music is it is awesome and timeless.
Published 2 months ago by Janis Mcquarrie
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie
I missed this movie when it came out. Through the years, I heard so much about it I decided to watch myself. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Doodle
5.0 out of 5 stars painfully true to life movie.
Both Jane Fonda and John Voight gave excellent performances of people living during and with the Vietnam War. I have watched the movie several times.
Published 5 months ago by Debbie
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful
Can't get any better than this...From cast to script...Coming Home recalls the confusion and feelings we shared during the tumultuous Vietnam era. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Phxdcb333
4.0 out of 5 stars The Wounded Survivors
Coming Home, 1978 film

The story starts with the conversation among veterans of the Vietnam war at a VA hospital. Was it justified? Read more
Published 7 months ago by Acute Observer
5.0 out of 5 stars I'll return to this film many times...
`Coming Home' had an uphill battle to earn my interest, let alone my affections. First off, I've never been entirely sold on Voight as an actor, despite some nice turns. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Andrew Ellington
4.0 out of 5 stars Soundtrack comments
Surprisingly moving, even so many years after its era. And we love you Penelope Milford, who played Viola? Read more
Published 15 months ago by tourist in the city
5.0 out of 5 stars No battlefield scenes just raw realism about Coming Home!
More than 30 years after the original release and all the documentaries and movies made in the meantime have not lessened the impact of Coming Home had on thousands and thousands... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Faye L. Bowring
4.0 out of 5 stars Jim's Review
As a veteran, I am not a Jane Fonda fan, but my wife had requested this movie as a birthday present earlier this year. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Indygolfer
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