A superb exercise in the art of suspense, while predicting big things for the film s director and eventual cult status for the film itself. Bruce dern home from hospital, in good spirits following. Platoon depicts the war itself and its impact on the soldiers as they were engaged in it. Coming home is a 1978 american drama film directed by hal ashby, and starring jane fonda, jon voight and bruce dern. A stranger within his own family, lu is determined to awaken his wifes memory through gentle displays of unconditional and eternal love. Coming home 1978 hal ashby synopsis, characteristics. It stars jane fonda, jon voight, bruce dern, penelope milford, robert carradine and robert ginty. Coming home 1978, jane fonda, jon voight, bruce dern. The boogeyman, fear, and responsibility a close analysis of halloween 1978.
In this particular film analysis blog, i wanted to compare the endings dialogue in coming home and full metal jacket. Coming home is a 1978 american drama film directed by hal ashby from a screenplay written. And i must admit that time was lenient on coming home. The film will be released july 26 by sony pictures. The two connect very deeply, which poses big problems and choices for all of them when captain hyde returns home. T picture quality is fine on my bluray,the sound is quiet but i allways remember this film as a jumbled mix of speech,overall a great film and a powerful home watching experience. And a woman who believed in both of them a woman whose husband is fighting in vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. The film stars jane fonda and jon voight in the lead roles. Coming home 1978 the wife of a marine serving in vietnam, sally hyde jane fonda decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. She is faithful, friendly, sexy in a quiet way, and totally in agreement with her husbands loyalties. Bruce dern, penelope milford, robert carradine and robert ginty appear in supporting roles. Oct 05, 2012 coming home trailer a woman whose husband is fighting in vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. Jane fonda, who just finished julia 1977, was soon going to star in alan j. Coming home 1978 stream and watch online moviefone.
It premiered at the 1978 cannes film festival where voight won the best actor award. Unable to recognize him, she still patiently awaits her husbands return. Coming home 1978 michael ds region 4 dvd info page. It makes a good companion piece on that war along with the film platoon that was made 8 years later. Voight character is transformed during this movie and is creditably done. Zhang yimous movie coming home original title gui lai is adapted from the novel the criminal lu yanshi by american based novelist yan geling. Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, tv series and more.
Thirty years later, in coming home 1978, jane fonda comforts jon voight, a paraplegic vet who, in 1968, at the height of the vietnam war, is furiously banging around a military hospital in. Multiple links are listed since a different versions exist and b many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Coming home is a 1978 drama film directed by hal ashby and starring jane fonda, jon voight and bruce dern. As one of the first major motion pictures to critically examine the homefronts reaction to vietnam, it was surely more polarizing in 1978 that it is these days, especially due to. Most of the time, jon voight refers to the paraplegics who acted with him in coming home as the guys, but every now and then he slips and calls them the other paras. Coming home 1978 soundtrack complete list of songs whatsong. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our and websites. In the documentary this film is not yet rated 2006, this movie was used as an example of how. In fact, all the principal actors were nominated for oscarsjon voight, jane fonda, penelope milford, and bruce dern, with both voight and. In 19781979, there were too many movies dealing with the vietnam war and later, i simply forgot that this film existed. Released in the late 1970s alongside the likes of the deer hunter and apocalypse now, coming home capitalised on americas strong antivietnam war sentiment, but unlike the cimino and coppola masterpieces this films focus is primarily on the lives of the disabled veterans who returned home.
A woman whose husband is fighting in vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. Jane fonda and bruce dern in coming home 1978 jane fonda and jon voight in coming home. The sally hyde at the end of the film about a year later is a different person, confused in her loyalties, not sure of her beliefs, awakened to new feelings within her. In the film, jon voight has an affair with bruce derns wife. The mag regularly features highly desirable, ebayfriendly free stuff exclusive film cells, posters, postcards, dvds. It was a landmark film in 1978 and it still speaks to a time that i think the. Feb, 1978 most of the time, jon voight refers to the paraplegics who acted with him in coming home as the guys, but every now and then he slips and calls them the other paras. A stranger within his own family, lu is determined to awaken his wifes memory through gentle displays of. When lu is released years later, he returns home to find his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Sep 09, 2015 coming home, only their second collaboration in the past 20 years, reunites them in an intimate, politically resonant story set in the final years and the immediate aftermath of the cultural. Through the eyes of sally hyde, a volunteer health. With jane fonda, jon voight, bruce dern, penelope milford. Coming home is one of the best acted films of the 70,s,the soundtrack is full of classic music of the era it is set in late 60,s. Convinced that no one would want to see a movie about vietnam, it was set adrift in theaters february 1978.
In 1968, marine captain bob hyde bruce dern leaves his wife sally jane fonda behind when hes. Coming home secured academy awards for fonda, voight, and scripters waldo salt. The allnew home entertainment section, lounge, is the ultimate onestopshop for everything you should care about in the churning world of dvds, books, videogames and, occasionally, filmrelated novelty furniture. So every week or so were going to do a regular feature called, the soundtrack of our lives, where one of our writers is going to discuss an old soundtrack and film, why its great and why you should know it. Coming home premiered at the 1978 cannes film festival where voight won the award for best actor for his performance. While conservatives will not embrace coming home, the film offers rewards for the rest of us. The film s narrative follows a perplexed woman, he. Jason blum recently teased that the first trailer for halloween kills is coming soon. Apr 11, 2016 in this particular film analysis blog, i wanted to compare the endings dialogue in coming home and full metal jacket. Coming home is a 1978 american drama film directed by hal ashby from a screenplay written by waldo salt and robert c. Coming home is an unsentimental but heartfelt study of the plight of the wounded vietnam vet. Rent coming home 1978 starring jane fonda and jon voight on dvd and bluray. Halloween kills first trailer is coming soon, will it be. This 1978 film was one of the early attempts to depict the effects of the vietnam war on the home front.
Coming home trailer a woman whose husband is fighting in vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury. In this closing clip from the film, luke, played by jon voight. A superb exercise in the art of suspense, while predicting big things for the films director and eventual cult status for the film itself. Rent coming home 1978 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. It is set in the late sixties and concerns the vietnam war. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. Once the studio got a look at coming home, they were dumbfounded. Rent coming home 1978 starring jane fonda and jon voight on dvd and blu ray. The films narrative follows between a young woman, her marine husband, and a. Coming home 1978 film wikimili, the free encyclopedia.
As one of the first major motion pictures to critically examine the homefronts reaction to vietnam, it was surely more polarizing in 1978 that it is these days, especially due to the presence of actress activist jane fonda. Coming home hal ashby 1978 clearly, hal ashbys coming home was meant to be an important film. In 1978 1979, there were too many movies dealing with the vietnam war and later, i simply forgot that this film existed. Coming homeis admittedly closer to the truth about war than past hollywood war tales of heroism, such as sergeant york1941.
That is the sally hyde at the beginning of hal ashbys coming home, an extraordinarily moving film. All 20 songs from the coming home 1978 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Coming home is a 1978 american vietnam war drama film directed by hal ashby from a screenplay written by waldo salt and robert c. The film s narrative follows between a young woman, her marine husband, and a. Coming home full movie 1978 lets join, fullhd movies seasonepisode here. Coming home 1978 soundtrack complete list of songs. The plot follows a love triangle among a young woman, her marine husband and the paralyzed vietnam war veteran she meets while her husband is overseas. Its not anymore a sterile discussion between the im rights and the youre wrongs, its the study of three tragic destinies. Jane fonda and penelope milford in coming home 1978. Dealing with veterans adating to normal life upon their return. When its all said and done, there are some melodramatics and plenty of. Its bizarrely coincidental that 20 years later, voights reallife daughter angelina jolie was involved in a love triangle with derns reallife daughter laura dern, when billy bob thornton broke off his engagement to dern to marry jolie. Even if coming home does slightly go into emotional overdrive and sometimes stray in to posh soap opera territory, it is still an outstanding, even great movie that is mighty effective in all departments and a big achiever in all its aims. Near the end of the film, luke shares his experience and thoughts on the vietnam war with an audience of young men, most likely in high school.
The film chronicles the journey of a chinese dissident from the 1920. Thus this article is making quite a large claim to be the most notable of those 39 and i would argue that the sheer number of other subjects with the same name is enough of an argument for the page to be moved to coming home film. Coming home trailer a woman whose husband is fighting in vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. Released february 15th, 1978, coming home stars jane fonda, jon voight, bruce dern, robert ginty the r movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 6 min, and received a score of 61 out of 100 on. Coming home is a 1978 film about a woman whose husband is fighting in vietnam who falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. The first, and quite possibly one of the best film about vietnam. Coming home 1978 full movie download full hd youtube. Discover top rated, most viewed, and editorial picked coming home movies on allmovie. But it infers that being a soldier at war makes you crazy, certainly a reach. The boogeyman, fear, and responsibility a close analysis of. Coming home, only their second collaboration in the past 20 years, reunites them in an intimate, politically resonant story set in the final years and the immediate aftermath of the cultural.
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