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- 1978
- R
- United Artists
- 2 h 7 m
- 1978
- R
- United Artists
- 2 h 7 m
Summary A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
Directed By: Hal Ashby
Written By: Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones, Nancy Dowd, Rudy Wurlitzer
- 1978
- R
- United Artists
- 2 h 7 m
- 1978
- R
- United Artists
- 2 h 7 m
Coming Home
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7.2
Summary A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
Directed By: Hal Ashby
Written By: Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones, Nancy Dowd, Rudy Wurlitzer
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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67% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
61
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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It confronts the relationship between Fonda and Voight with unusual frankness -- and with emotional tenderness and subtlety that is, if anything, even harder to portray.
In general an excellent Hal Ashby film which illuminates the conflicting attitudes on the Vietnam debacle from the standpoint of three participants.
Admirable in many ways, Coming Home succumbs to the same American lust for romance and heroism for which it implicitly condemns its doomed Marine captain. [20 Feb 1978, p.87]
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.
Hal Ashby directed this intuitive yet amorphous movie, which falls apart when he resorts to melodramatic crosscutting.
Strong, stinging triangle of two Vietnam vets and one wife.
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—he hasn't though, and the results are dramatically incoherent.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.2
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.2
60% Positive
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
