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Coming Home, 1978

Starring: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern

Directed by: Hal Ashby

Written by: Waldo Salt

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 127 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.3

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Coming Home can be described as uplifting, thought provoking, and emotional. The plot revolves around homecoming, anti-war themes, and starting over. The main genres are drama and war. In terms of style, Coming Home is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Coming Home is located in Los Angeles. It takes place in the 1960s. The soundtrack is rock. Coming Home has received attention for being an Oscar winner, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed.

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When Sally Hyde's (Jane Fonda) husband, a ramrod-straight marine captain, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), is sent to Vietnam, she leaves the isolated world of the officer's quarters and begins volunteer social work at the veterans hospital. There her unthinking support of the war and her blindness to its effects are challenged by meeting the crippled men struggling to recover, psychologically as well as physically, from their time in country. Many, like Luke Martin (Jon Voight), now a paraplegic, are embittered and full of unfocused, uncontrollable rage, which he takes out on the prim, controlled Sally. Interestingly, they went to the same large high school, but she was a pretty, popular cheerleader type and he was just a guy in the back of the class. Gradually, as she changes politically (always signaled by changes in hair and fashion) and he recovers emotionally, they become friends and then lovers. This causes a sexual awakening in Sally that furthers her transformation from a repressed wife to an independent woman. Then her husband comes home.

Hal Ashby's film, with its classic rock soundtrack and lush photography by Haskell Wexler, submerged its politics in a warm nostalgia, although it was made just a few years after the war ended. Still, its theme of individual transformation, both political and sexual, struck a chord with baby boomer audiences who all felt, to varying degrees, that they had done the same thing.