Synopsis
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.
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Cast
- Jane FondaSally Hyde
- Jon VoightLuke Martin
- Bruce DernCapt. Bob Hyde
- Penelope MilfordVi Munson
- Robert CarradineBill Munson
- Robert GintySgt. Dink Mobley
- Mary GregoryMartha Vickery
- Kathleen MillerKathy Delise
- Beeson CarrollCapt. Earl Delise
- Willie TylerVirgil
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
It confronts the relationship between Fonda and Voight with unusual frankness -- and with emotional tenderness and subtlety that is, if anything, even harder to portray. - 90
Variety
In general an excellent Hal Ashby film which illuminates the conflicting attitudes on the Vietnam debacle from the standpoint of three participants. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
What does work in Coming Home are the small, human, unguarded moments. The performances, undeniably appealing, were deservedly praised, Dern and Voight coming off best. - 60
Time Out
Cliché piles on cliché to the strains of a garbled '60s soundtrack, but the movie's ending goes some way to recognising its failure. Fonda is magnificent. - 60
Newsweek
Admirable in many ways, Coming Home succumbs to the same American lust for romance and heroism for which it implicitly condemns its doomed Marine captain. [20 Feb 1978, p.87] - 50
Chicago Reader
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—he hasn't though, and the results are dramatically incoherent. - 50
The New York Times
Strong, stinging triangle of two Vietnam vets and one wife. - 50
Washington Post
Some of the intuitions and sentiments shared by Ashby and the cast result in affecting interludes, but on the whole the material is too diffuse and complacently wistful to accomplish its ultimate goal of getting you there, breaking your heart, scaling the summit of old Mt. Pathos.
