Coming Home
A man who believed in war! A man who believed in nothing! And a woman who believed in both of them!
A man who believed in war! A man who believed in nothing! And a woman...
Drama, Romance, War
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1978
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In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
127 min
Release date:
15 Feb 1978
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$3,000,000
Revenue:
$32,653,905
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. 14 wins & 16 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The film has less to do with politics, women's or otherwise, than with a very conventional notion of the redemptive power of mother love. Which would be all right if director Hal Ashby had managed to mount it effectively.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
31 Oct 2007
fresh:
Coming Home is in general an excellent Hal Ashby film which illuminates the conflicting attitudes on the Vietnam debacle from the standpoint of three participants.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
31 Oct 2007
rotten:
Slowly, disastrously, it reveals its true identity as a three-sided love story about two Vietnam veterans and the one woman who loves them both.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Cliche piles on cliche to the strains of a garbled '60s soundtrack, but the movie's ending goes some way to recognising its failure. Fonda is magnificent.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006