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| United Artists | Release Date: February 15, 1978 |
Starring:
Beeson Carroll, Bruce Dern, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Kathleen Miller, Mary Gregory, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty, Willie Tyler
Summary:
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
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]
Hal Ashby directed this intuitive yet amorphous movie, which falls apart when he resorts to melodramatic crosscutting.
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.
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