Coming Home

UPC: 027616874825

Studio: MGM

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Adult Situations]

Summary: Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when her gung-ho Marine husband Bob (Bruce Dern) heads to Vietnam in 1968, proper wife Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at the V.A. hospital where her new friend Vi (Penelope Milford) works. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a former high-school classmate and Marine who has returned from 'Nam a bitter paraplegic. As their relationship grows, Sally sees the effect of the war on the soldiers after they come back, inspiring her to rethink her priorities; Luke's spirits begin to lift, and a hospital tragedy helps focus his anger toward meaningful protest. After a Hong Kong visit with her increasingly withdrawn husband, Sally finds a love and companionship with Luke that she had never known with her husband. Once Bob comes home with his own injury, however, the three must find a way to deal with a changing world and with a system that betrayed the men fighting for it. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Picture – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actor – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actress – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Director – null Best Screenplay – null Best Screenplay – null Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actor – Cannes Film Festival Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Actor – National Board of Review Best Actor – New York Film Critics Circle Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Featurettes: "Coming Back Home" & "Hal Ashby: A Man out of Time"
Audio commentary with Jon Voight, Bruce Dern & Haskell Wexler
Original theatrical trailer

Coming Home

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 04/16/2002

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, 1 USA & territories, Canada

Runtime: 127 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Main Title/War Vets [:23]
2. "Just Come Back!" [5:34]
3. Volunteer Wives [9:02]
4. Getting Charged Up [13:44]
5. Independence Day [9:38]
6. An Intimate Dinner [7:37]
7. On Leave of His Senses [3:30]
8. Relieving the Pain [4:43]
9. "Born to Be Wild" [13:19]
10. A Feeling of Love [4:52]
11. Reality Is Returning [1:18]
12. "Welcome Back, Hero!" [7:59]
13. Time's Up [7:21]
14. "I'm Not the Enemy!" [7:47]
15. Emotional Statements [3:26]
16. End Credits [5:54]

Lucia Bozzola

Originating as a project for Jane Fonda's production company, Coming Home took five years to get made, but it was still part of the first wave of Hollywood movies to address the controversial Vietnam War. With the presence of outspoken antiwar activist "Hanoi Jane" as the star, and fellow activist Haskell Wexler behind the camera, Coming Home espoused a clear antiwar stance, personalized through the characters' coming to consciousness over the war's toll. The cin?ma v?rit? shooting style, particularly in the opening scene of vets discussing whether they'd fight again if they were able, enhances the story's intimacy. No one experiences the war the same way, but no one comes away unscathed. Coming Home was praised for its sensitive performances, Jon Voight won the New York Film Critics Circle prize for Best Actor, and it was nominated for eight Oscars, but it was quickly overshadowed by Michael Cimino's more inflammatory Vietnam epic The Deer Hunter. Still, although The Deer Hunter won Best Picture, Fonda and Voight won Best Actress and Best Actor, and Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, and Robert C. Jones won an Oscar for their screenplay. By leaving the fighting offscreen and the ending ambiguous, Coming Home potently captured the elusive yet irreversible psychological disruption in the wake of Vietnam. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Ron Amador  Actor 
Pat Corley  Actor 
Mary Jackson  Actor 
Dennis Rucker  Actor 
Willie Tyler  Actor 
Cornelius H. Austin, Jr.  Actor 
Marc McClure  Actor 
Gwen van Dam  Actor 
Sally Frei  Actor 
Kathleen Miller  Actor 
David Clennon  Actor 
Mary Gregory  Actor 
James G. Richardson  Actor 
Tony Santoro  Actor 
Beeson Carroll  Actor 
Bruce French  Actor 
Stacey Pickren  Actor 
Ken Augustine  Actor 
Charles Cyphers  Actor 
Richard Lawson  Actor 
Rita Taggart  Actor 
Olivia Cole  Actor 
Teresa Hughes  Actor 
Arthur Rosenberg  Actor 
Danny Tucker  Actor 
Jonathan Banks  Actor 
Gary Lee Davis  Actor 
Hal Ashby  Director 
Nancy Dowd  Screenwriter 
Jerome Hellman  Producer 
Waldo Salt  Screenwriter 
Robert Jones  Screenwriter 
Jane Fonda  Actor 
Jon Voight  Actor 
Bruce Dern  Actor 
Robert Ginty  Actor 
Penelope Milford  Actor 
Robert Carradine  Actor 

Country: USA