Coming Home

original title:
Coming Home
other titles:
Hemkomsten, (Heimkehr)
country / year of production:
USA / 1978
original length:
126 min. , color
premiere:
15 February 1978
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Hal Ashby
film script:
Nancy Dowd , Robert C. Jones , Waldo Salt
producer:
Jerome Hellman
cinematographer:
Haskell Wexler
editor:
Don Zimmerman
composer:
cast (role):
Jane Fonda (Sally Hyde) , Jon Voight (Luke Martin) , Bruce Dern (Capt. Bob Hyde) , Penelope Milford (Viola Munson) , Robert Ginty (Sgt. Dink Mobley) , Jane Fonda , Jon Voight , Bruce Dern , Penelope Milford , Robert Ginty
more:
Robert Carradine (Bill Munson) , Robert Carradine
plot synopsis:
Sally Bender is the wife of a Captain in the United States Army. He is sent over to Vietnam, and Sally is alone. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital, where she meets Luke, who went to high school with Sally. Luke was wounded and is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. When Sally begins to fall in love with Luke, she has to make a crucial decision about her life.
keywords:
veterans , women during wartime , returning soldiers , wound, injury , shell shock , volunteers
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
James Campbell. "Coming Home: Difference and Reconcialiation in Narratives of the Return to `the World´". In: Richard M. Slabey (Ed.). The United States and Viet Nam from War to Peace. Jefferson: McFarland, 1996, 198-207.
remarks:
Won in 1979 "Oscars" for Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Story.
availability:
VHS, DVD