The film is based on a novel. It is about a young woman- Sally whose husband fights for war in Viet Nam is a volunteer at local veteran's hospital. She meets Luke Martin who is paralyzed and their romance blossom. In no time, They must confront a serious problem when her husband comes back home.
7 November 1961, Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK
31 January 1947, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
24 July 1934, Los Angeles County, California, USA
18 September 1950, Kern, California, USA
26 November 1942, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
22 August 1945, Gainesville, Florida, USA
7 June 1950, New York City, New York, USA
4 June 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 31, 2007
The performances, undeniably appealing, were deservedly praised, Dern and Voight coming off best.June 24, 2006
Cliché piles on cliché to the strains of a garbled '60s soundtrack, but the movie's ending goes some way to recognising its failure. Fonda is magnificent.May 20, 2003
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.October 31, 2007
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.March 17, 2008
This movie is a big deal.May 24, 2003
Ashby here soft soaps the issue of Vietnam and America's part in it by giving us merely a diluted and melodramatic love story.May 08, 2002
A convincing meditation on the scars the Vietnam War left on the bodies, minds, and souls of many soldiers and civilians.December 18, 2004
A powerful film about love and war. Oscars for the leads and Bruce Dern deservedly nominated.September 06, 2007
A wonderful movie with stellar performances; though Dern is a bit of a caricature.April 18, 2002
Politics aside, there's little to complain about in Coming Home.October 31, 2007
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.February 08, 2008
Though well acted by Jon Voight and Jane Fonda (who won Oscars), Coming Home is one of Hal Ashby's weakest films, a middlebrow melodrama that wears its political message on its sleeves.