Coming Home film review

Review

Cast & crew

Coming Home

(1978)

High-powered, Oscar-winning performances by Jon Voight and Jane Fonda are the big attraction of this post-Vietnam melodrama. The film is set on the home front, and centres on the romance between an embittered paraplegic and a Marine captain's wife, working as a volunteer in a veteran's hospital. Bruce Dern is also top-notch as Fonda's husband. The screenplay — based on a story commissioned by Fonda, a highly vocal Vietnam War activist — skirts close to sentimentality, if not soap opera at points. But it too won an Oscar, and only a hard heart would remain unmoved by the finished movie. PF

Contains swearing, sex scenes.

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Running time

122mins

Country of origin

Genre

Drama

Original language

English

Screenplay

Waldo Salt, Robert C Jones, from a story by Nancy Dowd

Theatrical distributor

Cinema International Corp. UK

UK cinema certificate




awards information


	Award	Category	Name	Nominee/Winner

	Academy 1978	Actor in a Leading Role	Jon Voight	Winner
	Academy 1978	Actor in a Supporting Role	Bruce Dern	Nominee
	Academy 1978	Actress in a Leading Role	Jane Fonda	Winner
	Academy 1978	Actress in a Supporting Role	Penelope Milford	Nominee
	Academy 1978	Best Picture		Nominee
	Academy 1978	Directing	Hal Ashby	Nominee
	Academy 1978	Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)	Nancy Dowd	Winner
	Academy 1978	Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)	Waldo Salt	Winner
	Academy 1978	Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)	Robert C Jones	Winner
	Cannes International Film Festival 1978	Actor	Jon Voight	Winner
	Golden Globe 1978	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Drama	Jon Voight	Winner
	Golden Globe 1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama	Jane Fonda	Winner