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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.
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.
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.
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.
A wonderful movie with stellar performances; though Dern is a bit of a caricature.
September 06, 2007
Chicago Reader
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.