Both Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for their performances in Coming Home, a 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, Amazon.com [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Perhaps the most powerful picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War Coming Home earned eight Academy Award nominations and three Oscars Best Actress (Jane Fonda) Best Actor (Jon Voight) and Best Screenplay Hailed by critics as dazzling gripping and urforgettable it is a heart-rending examination of a critical period in American history and an uncompromising extraordinarily moving film 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 sergeant whose 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 feeling 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
Lonely wife Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) misses her soldier husband Bob (Bruce Dern), who is currently away serving in the Vietnam War, and decides to occupy herself by doing voluntary work at the local military hospital. There she meets Luke (Jon Voight), a young soldier who has recently returned from the war paralysed from the waist down. Sally and Luke fall in love, and she begins to take on his anti-war sentiments. When Bob returns home, himself also injured, his conflict with the lovers centres not just on Sally's infidelity but on the rights and wrongs of the US involvement in Vietnam. Nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, 'Coming Home' won statuettes for Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Voight) and Best Actress (Fonda).
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