Coming Home | | Cast : | Jane Fonda, Jon Voight | | Director : | Hal Ashby | | Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | February 15, 1978 | | DVD Released Date : | January 11, 2005 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 30, 2005 | | Summary | Fabulous Movie--but that last scene...? | Content
 | A fantastic, moving, dramatic movie about the casualties--at home--of the Vietnam War....Voigt, Fonda, and Dern are superb.
But one thing that has always nagged at me--the very final scene with the "Lucky Out" sign on the convenience store door--how are people interpreting the meaning of this? |
| Rating | | | Date | May 30, 2005 | | Summary | Flower Power Film. | Content
| The movie deals with the psychological effects of the Vietnam War. This movie isn't about the war, as there are no battle scenes at all. It only reflects the behaviour of people who are affected by the war.
The film is escorted with a great music of the period (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and others), however, it is there in EVERY scene!
They just played it over the entire movie which was quite annoying.
Overall it is a good film about the damage war makes to the soul, and that fighting against war is sometimes right, as war might become the
enemy.
Great handicapped sex scene.
8/10 |
| Rating | | | Date | April 28, 2005 | | Summary | Sound and Image | Content
| It's no accident that several of the reviewers plead for information about where to find the soundtrack for this movie, which consists not of original music, but songs from the era. As far as I know, it's never been available, but this shows just how well the songs were selected and used in this movie. In particular, the use of Tim Buckley's "Once I Was" in one scene is so overpowering that I wondered for many years what the song was, and where I could find it, searching through used record bins for the (nonexistent) soundtrack album. There are several important themes in the film, all of which are discussed in other reviews, but the Buckley song expresses the feelings of Bruce Dern's character in a way that could not have been achieved any other way. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 03, 2005 | | Summary | GREAT FILM | Content
| John Voight is awesome in this one. It's an anti-war film but takes an interesting look at how the soldiers coming back from Vietnam deal with their situations. It's different with every one. Jane Fonda plays a good role, but Voight is the one to see here, especially his speech to the high school kids about war. It's blunt, but from the heart. The main character's message is "Before you enter the war theatre, one has no idea of the HELL that awaits." War is a barbaric game played by morons. Let's wake up and smell the coffee. We're still blowing things up and killing innocent people in the middle east, all in the name of the proud USA. When are we going to try to understand each other? Too much hate.
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| Rating | | | Date | October 16, 2004 | | Summary | Most moving of the Viet Nam films by far... | Content
| I realize that some folks' contempt for Jane Fonda has caused them to feel equal contempt for this movie... Dont let it... Regardless of one's perspective on Fonda's political position(s) over the years, "Coming Home" is nonetheless the most poignant of all the Viet Nam movies.
Made in a period before the subject had been done to death (especially in the 1980s, where pretense, posturing and insincerity reigned), "Coming Home" which, as per its title, takes place almost entirely on American soil, get the mood, and late-60s "look" uncannily correct.
Focusing on a paraplegic vet (Jon Voight) who falls in love with a married and not-worldly army nurse (Fonda) while her officer husband (Bruce Dern) is overseas, the Oscar-winning "Coming Home" is its era's equivalent of 1946's "The Best Years of Our Lives"... Some may consider that blaspemous, but it isn't-- at all.
Too bad this movie seems to be buried now... Is it because of the done-too-much-since-then subject-matter, or is it bias against Miss Fonda? I dont know. But despite all those other Viet Nam films that would come along, this a (rare) classic take on that period-- a period now so long ago. |
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