Coming Home (1978)

Cast

Jane Fonda
as Sally Hyde
Jon Voight
as Luke Martin
Jonathan Banks
as Marine at Party
Bruce Dern
as Capt. Bob Hyde

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Genres & Description

Action Drama History Romance War

7.3 / 10

Sally Bender is the wife of a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. 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.

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Comments on this trailer
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Pamela White

great movie and the music was perfect for this time in our history.... genius... boomers lived it... thanks for all those vets that served our country in NAM - @Monday, September 14, 2015 7:41 PM

Mr. Math Expert

dark, also see born on the fourth of july. - @Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:51 AM

Luca OasisMonkeys

i'm really getting into the viet nam movies like platoon, apocalypse now, full metal jacket, and my favourite the deer hunter cant wait to watch this one, if anyone has any suggestion please let me no as a reply to this comment. - @Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:35 PM

Chuckey 2015

Movies back then were so much better. Made you feel like you were at the movies, it felt like going to to movies. The movies today are all digital bullshit. They not even using film anymore. Sad... - @Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:02 PM

lukeloveslauraalways

I love this movie. It's a good movie to address the soldiers who were both physically and mentally scared from this crazy war. Both Jane Fonda and Jon Voight gave such wonderful performances. I never cared for Bruce Dern but he gave a very good performance as a soldier who didn't understand what the war was about til he got over there and saw it was chaos. Great direction too by Hal Ashby. - @Saturday, August 18, 2012 8:26 PM

Susan D

One of my favorite films of all time...shifts from mood to mood and shows us how simple, complicated and ephemeral love can be. The shots of the hospital staff working with the vets are so effective; shares a chapter of American history where so much can be unpacked. (Not to mention a wonderful oral sex scene.) - @Saturday, May 12, 2012 1:54 AM

MsCentrum04

@swastikausa she didn't "do" anything--and what's worse? YOU know that. mscentrum04 - @Saturday, January 7, 2012 5:24 AM

MsCentrum04

swastikausa:You poor ignorant, hate-filled fool. This is past.There's no evidence for your ridiculous rantings.....I feel sorry for you.Voight is a super conservative now.Fonda is a Christian,elegant, elequent, and has asked for forgiveness for her unwise comments in those Viet Nam clips--and has received it,from all thinking folk. I don't know where you come "from," but if NO ONE is ever forgiven there, for things said in haste or error? You come from HELL. Just want to vent.ok. mscentrum04 - @Saturday, January 7, 2012 5:23 AM

MsCentrum04

@donjsnyder: You are in grave error.please inform yourself.mscentrum04 2012 - @Saturday, January 7, 2012 4:40 AM

foxygirl1977

I've seen this movie. One of the most powerful films ever made. - @Sunday, January 1, 2012 1:43 PM

dirkbogarde44

Always remember Bruce Dern exploding when he finds out what's been going on between Voight and Fonda. It was the rudest thing i'd ever heard upto that point. - @Tuesday, December 27, 2011 6:33 PM

TechLinkOnline

@Seera "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." Franklin D. Roosevelt - @Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:28 PM

MsCentrum04

I love/loved this film! Loved the music, too. The sad thing is that Voight somehow went off the rails.....changed his worldview,is Extreme Conservative now--and let his daughter slip away from him, forever.Nothing should sever the parental bond,except murder or some unspeakabe offense.But Fonda &Voight, in this beautiful film continue to amaze and instruct. Ron Kovic was pleased-he was the template for the Voight character. Ms.Centrum 04 - @Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:20 AM

nycdweller

Love this movie. I saw it when it first came out and am still moved by it. - @Saturday, August 6, 2011 12:59 AM

Mia

@donjsnyder Just so you know, the latest wikileaks on confidential information reveal that nuclear chemical labs and burrows housing warheads were found in Iraq during the stages of the war. So you were wrong, the Iraq war was not a lie. - @Friday, November 5, 2010 10:48 AM

lukeloveslauraalways

I loved this movie--Loved Jon VOight and Jane Fonda in it. I have seen it many times. Great director too. - @Sunday, October 17, 2010 10:00 PM

brelomar

great great great - @Sunday, October 17, 2010 3:14 AM

Oscar Machuca

@finecanbrothers I have enjoyed this film also, thats why I was looking for it; the music was great also, I remember "Out of time", by the Stones, playing at the begining with bruce Dern running along a white line on a street. - @Saturday, May 29, 2010 2:03 PM

donnchadh mcgrath

the best thing would have been to make her stay in north vietnam like those guys who defected to north korea. MIAs still live - @Wednesday, May 26, 2010 8:37 AM

donnchadh mcgrath

The message is still a good one. Stop the war, praise our veterans, try and topple bad governments by peaceful means. Still I get what you mean. Jane fonda is still despised for what she did to those POWs - @Sunday, May 23, 2010 8:30 PM

jimmi144

I watched this movie for the first time in a long time last night. I think this movie is as provocative as it was the day it was released. I agree that's it's neither pro-war nor anti-war. It just tells the absolute truth. I wish that there were some people who could open their minds, and see this movie for what it is - and just put their negative opinions about Jane Fonda out of their minds. - @Sunday, May 2, 2010 10:51 PM

tim mgh

THis film is so fine. I do not why it is very underrated. WOW! Angeline has the same smile as Jon. - @Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:10 PM

Colshy TheComedian

Great film. The cast were all superb. Loved Jon Voight and Bruce Dern the best though! - @Saturday, April 17, 2010 3:06 PM

Tariq

wow, this company is being very dickish and have a very poor grasp of marketing strategies in modern times. For sure I'm gonna download this movie and not let them have a cent. - @Tuesday, March 9, 2010 1:52 PM

Crystal Gonzales

Dern's performance was winning as well... - @Friday, January 22, 2010 12:51 AM

Luismore

one of those strange marvelous movies. a unfaithful jane fonda (brucer dern was the husban i think) wife war victim... - @Saturday, January 2, 2010 8:18 AM

busterbone

sweet , sad movie about how war affects those back home-immense emotional acting power of realistic of a scenario. great soundtrack. - @Friday, October 23, 2009 7:01 PM

Ana Isabel Ferreira

Fantástico filme, apesar de antigo! Jon Voight e Jane Fonda no seu melhor. - @Monday, October 5, 2009 9:55 PM

Don Alex

I dont think the film is just about the wrongness of our part in that war or even of wars in general, I think it was about the emotional and physical effects that it has on the people who were (at the time) forced to fight in it. That it came out at a time when American youth no longer had that threat hanging over them (and thus preferred Star Wars and videogames) is another irony. I dont think the film is strictly pro or anti war, its just the simple tragic truth, in all it's complexity. - @Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:33 PM

Don Alex

It also has probably THE greatest 60s soundtrack of all time, just a phenomenal use of the era's best songs used in an unforgettable way. "Coming Home" is an absolute masterpiece. - @Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:23 PM

Don Alex

One of the most emotionally powerful films Ive ever seen. - @Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:19 PM

Northeast

Hanoi Jane - @Tuesday, July 7, 2009 9:37 AM

Jordan Herrick

I must see this. I love Hal Ashby. - @Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:16 AM

sgtpeppper

oh i thought i heard that song somwhere haha. - @Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:49 PM

Bob .Grant

Great film with superb performances from Voight, Fonda and Dern. - @Saturday, May 2, 2009 1:25 AM

AllBrushed Models

siege of fire base gloria, deer hunter, in country, heaven & earth, dear america, regret to inform, jacobs ladder...... - @Friday, April 10, 2009 8:44 PM

Ezra Owen Cooper

You missed the whole point grunt. Jon Voight saw the LIE that resided at the heart of the Vietnam War. A similar lie in Iraq. If one must kill thousands of innocent people in order to WIN a war, then perhaps that war is not worth winning. - @Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:32 PM

chetansingh2006

can someone send me the cd of this movie post vietnam war we dont get this movie in India thanx u - @Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:39 PM

Jebuiz y'har

De Niro deserved the Best Actor Oscar more - @Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:25 AM

Tribus6

Excelente film y mejores interpretaciones. La muestra de que en Hollywood a veces hacen producciones buenas, más allá de los grandes efectos especiales. Gracias. - @Monday, September 29, 2008 2:05 AM

mrmaverick77

This film suffers from a flawed screenplay. The writing is bad and gets worse as the movie progresses. Still, Jon Voight is magnificent. I could never understand why Fonda won best actress for this. Overall, this movie doesn't stand the test of time, but Voight's work seems genuine and heartfelt. Thank you, Jon. And as for you, Jane: Get a life. You're old and boring now. We're over you. - @Sunday, July 13, 2008 11:34 AM

wuhts

I watch this movie with mixed emotions. My husband was a Marine in Chu Lai and Da Nang during the Tet Offensive that finally swayed opinion on that war. I can only watch when my husband isn't home. The most moving antiwar song ever is Tim Buckley's Once I Was. Peace - @Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:24 PM

outinsider

you can get it on DVD too. - @Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:45 PM

outinsider

it really captured the Vietnam War on the domestic from beautifully and without bias. And, it shows a current thread of thought towards our troops too, by showing the lack of health care they so deserve for serving our country. - @Sunday, June 8, 2008 6:57 AM

outinsider

One of my favorite movies ever. Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern, and John Voight are just plain excellent. Oscars all around. And it really shows that Jane Fonda was FOR the troops just not the war with this movie. - @Sunday, June 8, 2008 2:05 AM