Rent Coming Home for FREE
+70,000 other titles and counting
- NO late fees or long term contracts - cancel anytime
- FREE first class post for DVD, Blu-ray & Games rental
- 1000's of films to stream instantly to your PC, TV or PS3TM at no extra cost
Coming Home
1978
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 .. Read more
| Starring | Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Robert Carradine |
|---|---|
| Director | Hal Ashby |
| Genres | Drama |
loading...
Coming Home
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 battle. 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 Haskel Wexler, submerged its politics in a warm nostalgia, although it was made just a few years after the war ended. It's 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. Both Fonda and Voight received the 1978 Academy Awards for their strong acting.
| Starring | Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Robert Carradine, Penelope Milford |
|---|---|
| Director | Hal Ashby |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1978 To Rent: DVD: 07 Jun 2004 |
-
Critic's review
View all critics' reviews (2) -
-
Hal (Shampoo) Ashby takes on (and makes disposable) America's post-Vietnam guilt, with a supremely sentimental tale of... read more on Time Out
- 46743
-
- Time Out
- 04 Nov 2008 at 00:17
-
-
Most helpful member's review
View all members' reviews (5) -
-
- 2
- 0
Another lost gem
A film you don't hear about much these days, but it's all there, quality actor, good story and amazing soundtrack, Recommended
- 71384
-
[Highly rated reviewer]
- Chris Collinson
- London, England
- 10 Feb 2005 at 13:46
-
-
Most recent members' reviews
View all members' reviews (5) -
-
- 0
- 0
Coming Home Hits Home!!
A Film which certainly hits home the realities of war!!
Great acting which couldn't have been easy at times!! 'Jane Fonda' 'Bruce ... read more » - 1062458
-
- laneyb
- 158 reviews
- Rochester, Kent
- 14 Nov 2011 at 09:36
-
-
-
- 0
- 0
Have we learnt are lesson...
Man,what a film! The hellish side of the sixties telling us that war sucks. The idea was in 1978 a movie could change the integral forward marching system of ... read more »
- 755447
-
- imountie
- 13 reviews
- Islington, London - on the cheap side
- 10 May 2009 at 21:16
-
-
-
- 0
- 0
Hey, easy on the hair!
This movie has it's heart in exactly the right place and says a lot of relevant and truthful things about the effectiveness, or otherwise, of the US ... read more »
- 578040
-
- a customer
- London
- 19 Jun 2008 at 08:31
-
-
News and features
View all
Monster-in-Law motivates Fonda
- 05 May 2005
Jane Fonda makes her first film appearance in 15 years when she stars alongside Jennifer Lopez, in the new release Monster-In-Law. The new film, which hits UK cinema screens from May 13th, will see Fonda play a mother-in-law-from-hell television presenter, who tries to stop her son from marrying Lopez's character. Speaking to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fonda revealed that part of the inspiration behind her character was her ex-husband and CNN founder Ted Turner. "You can't live with Read more
-
People who rented this also rented
Showing 1 to 4 of 20
Related user collection
74.8% from 17 members
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
-
-
-
Coming Home
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 ...
-
Want to watch something right now?
Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | EULA | Affiliates | Jobs | Inside LOVEFiLM Blog | About Us | Contact Us
International sites UK DK DE SE NO
LOVEFiLM, the LOVEFiLM logo and all other LOVEFiLM product or service names are trade marks of LOVEFiLM International Ltd. or its affiliates.
© 2012 LOVEFiLM UK Ltd. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
-
- Formats
- DVD
- Blu-ray
- HD DVD
- Cinema
- LOVEFiLM Instant
- Hotlists
- New releases
- Just added
- Coming soon
- Most popular
- Film or TV
- Film & Features
- Television
-
- DVD Charts
- UK weekly rental chart
- All time top 250
- BFI top 100
- AFI top 100
- Most wanted Blu-rays
- TV weekly rental chart
- The Collection Section
- Celebrity collections
- Unofficial collections
- User collections
-
- Hotlists
- New releases
- Coming soon
-
- Watch Online
- With package
- Pay Per View
- Free
- Hotlists
- New releases
- Just added
- Film or TV
- Film & Features
- Television
- LOVEFiLM on TV
- LOVEFiLM direct to your TV
- Connect your PC to your TV