Coming Home (1978)

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Synopsis
Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when her gung-ho Marine husband Bob (Bruce Dern) heads to Vietnam in 1968, proper wife Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at the V.A. hospital where her new friend Vi (Penelope Milford) works. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a former high-school classmate and Marine who has returned from 'Nam a bitter paraplegic. As their relationship grows, Sally sees the effect of the war on the soldiers after they come back, inspiring her to rethink her priorities; Luke's spirits begin to lift, and a hospital tragedy helps focus his anger toward meaningful protest. After a Hong Kong visit with her increasingly withdrawn husband, Sally finds a love and companionship with Luke that she had never known with her husband. Once Bob comes home with his own injury, however, the three must find a way to deal with a changing world and with a system that betrayed the men fighting for it. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Production Crew

Donald Thorin	Camera Operator
Haskell Wexler	Cinematographer
Ann Roth	Costume Designer
Jennifer Parsons	Costume Designer
Michael W. Hoffman	Costume Designer
Silvio Scarano	Costume Designer
Hal Ashby	Director
Don Zimmerman	Editor
Chuck Myers	First Assistant Director
Jerome Hellman	Producer
George P. Gaines	Production Designer
James L. Schoppe	Production Designer
Michael Haller	Production Designer
Nancy Dowd	Screenwriter
Robert Jones	Screenwriter
Waldo Salt	Screenwriter
June Samson	Script Supervisor
George P. Gaines	Set Designer
Buzz Knudson	Sound/Sound Designer

Genre
Drama
Romance

Awards
1978 - Best Film - New York Film Critics Circle
1978 - Best Picture - Academy
1978 - Best Picture - L.A. Film Critics Association
1978 - Best Picture - National Board of Review
1978 - Best Picture - Drama - Golden Globe
1978 - Best Screenplay - Golden Globe
1978 - Best Screenplay - Golden Globe
1978 - Best Picture - Academy
1978 - Best Picture - Los Angeles Film Critics Association
1978 - Best Screenplay - Golden Globe
1978 - Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
1978 - Best Picture - Drama - Hollywood Foreign Press Association
1978 - Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association
1978 - Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association

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Robert Carradine	Bill Munson
Bruce Dern	Captain Bob Hyde
Jane Fonda	Sally Hyde
Penelope Milford	Viola Munson
Robert Ginty	Sgt. Dink Mobley
Jon Voight	Luke Martin

Coming Home (1978)

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