Coming Home

A Film which certainly hits home the realities of war!!

Great acting which couldn't have been easy at times!! 'Jane Fonda' 'Bruce Dern' and 'Jon Voight' gave exellent performances of an era nobody should see, but unfortunately do!!

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 war. This is the power of a movie. It was done after WWII but about the other side. Then we were the heroes; now,in the sixties maybe you wanted that feeling again. Trouble is now things are different. As Luke points out in the film, he's not sure who the enemy is.

The power of music. This music wasn't written for the film. I don't think the film was written for the music, but it speaks with one voice.

One of the best films I've ever seen...

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 military machine. As a movie it 'could have done better'. It's an engaging, if predictable, story, with an attractive cast and quite well paced. But it's not convincing, mainly due to the imbalance between the roles and the stars, and the undeveloped characterization. It's still worth a watch as a period piece.

Another Hal Ashby effort that has more than tinges of emotion manipulation at times but it's very much a film of a time when this subject matter wasn't really discussed as effectively as in this movie. Following a love story that develops between a Captain's wife and a Vietnam veteran during said war it treats the issues and ethics surrounding it with sensitivity and without prejudice. There is a very strong lean to anti-war, however not at the expense of ignoring the soldiers who did go to war for what they thought was the right thing to do. This film lost out to The Deer Hunter as best picture and I think I might have to go back and watch that to compare the two films. This film is certainly a lot less confrontational and does try to deal with the same subject matter but without really indulging in any action. The lead acting grabbed two gongs and though they were good they weren't career defining moments

A film you don't hear about much these days, but it's all there, quality actor, good story and amazing soundtrack, Recommended