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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

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- Hal (Shampoo) Ashby takes on (and makes disposable) America's post-Vietnam guilt, with a supremely sentimental tale of... read more on Time Out
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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:17
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- - 3
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  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
  
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  - Chris Collinson
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  - 10 Feb 2005 at 13:46
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- - 0
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  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 »
  
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- - laneyb
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  - Rochester, Kent
  - 14 Nov 2011 at 09:36
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  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 »
  
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- - imountie
  - 13 reviews
  - Islington, London - on the cheap side
  - 10 May 2009 at 21:16
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  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 »
  
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  - London
  - 19 Jun 2008 at 08:31
- - 1
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  Vietnam from a different perspective and film making style
  
  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 ... read more »
  
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  - McClennan
  - 424 reviews
  - St Helens
  - 23 Apr 2005 at 12:16
- - 3
  - 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
  
  Report this review
- 71384
- - Chris Collinson
  - London, England
  - 10 Feb 2005 at 13:46
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- - 3
  - 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
  
  Report this review
- 71384
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Chris Collinson
  - London, England
  - 10 Feb 2005 at 13:46
- - 1
  - 0
  Vietnam from a different perspective and film making style
  
  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 ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 95710
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - McClennan
  - 424 reviews
  - St Helens
  - 23 Apr 2005 at 12:16
- - 1
  - 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 »
  
  Report this review
- 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 »
  
  Report this review
- 578040
- - a customer
  - London
  - 19 Jun 2008 at 08:31
- - 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 »
  
  Report this review
- 1062458
- - laneyb
  - 181 reviews
  - Rochester, Kent
  - 14 Nov 2011 at 09:36

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  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 ...