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War at Home Film on Vet's Wife's Realizations on Life

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Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern in...

Coming Home

( Catalog Number ML101448 )
(1.85:1) (3 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

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Original Theatrical Trailer

Coming Home
1978 - 128 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
When Sally Hyde's (Jane Fonda) husband, a ramrod-straight marine captain, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), is sent to Vietnam, she leaves the isolated world of the officer's quarters and begins volunteer social work at the veterans hospital. There her unthinking support of the war and her blindness to its effects are challenged by meeting the crippled men struggling to recover, psychologically as well as physically, from their time in country. Many, like Luke Martin (Jon Voight), now a paraplegic, are embittered and full of unfocused, uncontrollable rage, which he takes out on the prim, controlled Sally. Interestingly, they went to the same large high school, but she was a pretty, popular cheerleader type and he was just a guy in the back of the class. Gradually, as she changes politically (always signaled by changes in hair and fashion) and he recovers emotionally, they become friends and then lovers. This causes a sexual awakening in Sally that furthers her transformation from a repressed wife to an independent woman. Then her husband comes home.

Hal Ashby's film, with its classic rock soundtrack and lush photography by Haskell Wexler, submerged its politics in a warm nostalgia, although it was made just a few years after the war ended. Still, its theme of individual transformation, both political and sexual, struck a chord with baby boomer audiences who all felt, to varying degrees, that they had done the same thing.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when her gung-ho Marine husband Bob (Bruce Dern) heads to Vietnam in 1968, proper wife Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at the V.A. hospital where her new friend Vi (Penelope Milford) works. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a former high-school classmate and Marine who has returned from 'Nam a bitter paraplegic. As their relationship grows, Sally sees the effect of the war on the soldiers after they come back, inspiring her to rethink her priorities; Luke's spirits begin to lift, and a hospital tragedy helps focus his anger toward meaningful protest. After a Hong Kong visit with her increasingly withdrawn husband, Sally finds a love and companionship with Luke that she had never known with her husband. Once Bob comes home with his own injury, however, the three must find a way to deal with a changing world and with a system that betrayed the men fighting for it. [Synopsis by Lucia Bozzola]

Originating as a project for Jane Fonda's production company, Coming Home took five years to get made, but it was still part of the first wave of Hollywood movies to address the controversial Vietnam War. With the presence of outspoken antiwar activist "Hanoi Jane" as the star, and fellow activist Haskell Wexler behind the camera, Coming Home espoused a clear antiwar stance, personalized through the characters' coming to consciousness over the war's toll. The cinema verite shooting style, particularly in the opening scene of vets discussing whether they'd fight again if they were able, enhances the story's intimacy. No one experiences the war the same way, but no one comes away unscathed. Coming Home was praised for its sensitive performances, Jon Voight won the New York Film Critics Circle prize for Best Actor, and it was nominated for eight Oscars, but it was quickly overshadowed by Michael Cimino's more inflammatory Vietnam epic The Deer Hunter. Still, although The Deer Hunter won Best Picture, Fonda and Voight won Best Actress and Best Actor, and Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, and Robert C. Jones won an Oscar for their screenplay. By leaving the fighting offscreen and the ending ambiguous, Coming Home potently captured the elusive yet irreversible psychological disruption in the wake of Vietnam. [Review by Lucia Bozzola]

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Cast for Coming Home

Jane Fonda - Sally Hyde
Jon Voight - Luke Martin
Bruce Dern - Captain Bob Hyde
Robert Ginty - Sgt. Dink Mobley
Penelope Milford - Viola Munson
Robert Carradine - Bill Munson
Stacey Pickren - Sophie
James Richardson - Marine at Party
Kathleen Miller - Kathy Delise
Marc McClure - Highschool Class President
Richard Lawson - Pat
Willie Tyler - Virgil
Danny Tucker - Monty
Gwen van Dam - Mrs. Harris
Arthur Rosenberg - Bruce
Dennis Rucker - Marine at Party
Rita Taggart - Johnson
Tony Santoro - Porsche Policeman
Ken Augustine - Ken
David Clennon - Tim
Olivia Cole - Corrine
Pat Corley - Harris
Cornelius H. Austin, Jr. - Corny
Beeson Carroll - Captain Carl Delise
Jonathan Banks - Marine at Party
Mary Jackson - Fleta Wilson
Mary Gregory - Martha Vickery
Bruce French - Dr. Lincoln
Teresa Hughes - Nurse De Groot
Charles Cyphers - Pee Wee
Gary Lee Davis - Marine Recruiter
Sally Frei - Connie
Ron Amador - Beany

Crew for Coming Home

Hal Ashby - Director
Jerome Hellman - Producer
Nancy Dowd - Screenwriter
Robert Jones - Screenwriter
Robert C. Jones - Screenwriter
Waldo Salt - Screenwriter
Haskell Wexler - Cinematographer
Don Zimmerman - Editor
Michael Haller - Production Designer
James Schoppe - Production Designer
George P. Gaines - Set Designer / Production Designer
Michael W. Hoffman - Costume Designer
Jennifer Parsons - Costume Designer
Ann Roth - Costume Designer
Silvio Scarano - Costume Designer
Chuck Myers - First Assistant Director
Donald Thorin - Camera Operator
Buzz Knudson - Sound/Sound Designer

Awards for Coming Home

Best Actor (win) Jon Voight 1978 Academy
Best Actress (win) Jane Fonda 1978 Academy
Best Director (nom) Hal Ashby 1978 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Don Zimmerman 1978 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (win) Nancy Dowd 1978 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (win) Robert Jones 1978 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (win) Waldo Salt 1978 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1978 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Bruce Dern 1978 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Penelope Milford 1978 Academy
Best Male Performance (win) Jon Voight 1978 Cannes Film Festival
Competing Film Hal Ashby 1978 Cannes Film Festival
Best Actor (win) 1978 LA Film Critics Association
Best Actress (win) 1978 LA Film Critics Association
Best Film (win) 1978 LA Film Critics Association
Best Actor (win) Jon Voight 1978 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Actress Jane Fonda 1978 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film Hal Ashby 1978 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Actor (in Drama) (win) 1979 Golden Globe
Best Actress (in Drama) (win) 1979 Golden Globe

Feature Details

Title: Coming Home
Feature Release Date: 1978
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 128 Minutes
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

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Technical Details

Catalog Number: ML101448
UPC: 027616144867
ISBN: 0792816277
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video

Sides: 3
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ML101448-N
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Rare Factory-Sealed, Deluxe Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint Condition with Gatefold Jacket

Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern in...

Coming Home

( Catalog Number ML101448 )
(1.85:1) (3 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Original Theatrical Trailer

Coming Home
1978 - 128 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
When Sally Hyde's (Jane Fonda) husband, a ramrod-straight marine captain, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), is sent to Vietnam, she leaves the isolated world of the officer's quarters and begins volunteer social work at the veterans hospital. There her unthinking support of the war and her blindness to its effects are challenged by meeting the crippled men struggling to recover, psychologically as well as physically, from their time in country. Many, like Luke Martin (Jon Voight), now a paraplegic, are embittered and full of unfocused, uncontrollable rage, which he takes out on the prim, controlled Sally. Interestingly, they went to the same large high school, but she was a pretty, popular cheerleader type and he was just a guy in the back of the class. Gradually, as she changes politically (always signaled by changes in hair and fashion) and he recovers emotionally, they become friends and then lovers. This causes a sexual awakening in Sally that furthers her transformation from a repressed wife to an independent woman. Then her husband comes home.

Hal Ashby's film, with its classic rock soundtrack and lush photography by Haskell Wexler, submerged its politics in a warm nostalgia, although it was made just a few years after the war ended. Still, its theme of individual transformation, both political and sexual, struck a chord with baby boomer audiences who all felt, to varying degrees, that they had done the same thing.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when her gung-ho Marine husband Bob (Bruce Dern) heads to Vietnam in 1968, proper wife Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at the V.A. hospital where her new friend Vi (Penelope Milford) works. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a former high-school classmate and Marine who has returned from 'Nam a bitter paraplegic. As their relationship grows, Sally sees the effect of the war on the soldiers after they come back, inspiring her to rethink her priorities; Luke's spirits begin to lift, and a hospital tragedy helps focus his anger toward meaningful protest. After a Hong Kong visit with her increasingly withdrawn husband, Sally finds a love and companionship with Luke that she had never known with her husband. Once Bob comes home with his own injury, however, the three must find a way to deal with a changing world and with a system that betrayed the men fighting for it. [Synopsis by Lucia Bozzola]

Originating as a project for Jane Fonda's production company, Coming Home took five years to get made, but it was still part of the first wave of Hollywood movies to address the controversial Vietnam War. With the presence of outspoken antiwar activist "Hanoi Jane" as the star, and fellow activist Haskell Wexler behind the camera, Coming Home espoused a clear antiwar stance, personalized through the characters' coming to consciousness over the war's toll. The cinema verite shooting style, particularly in the opening scene of vets discussing whether they'd fight again if they were able, enhances the story's intimacy. No one experiences the war the same way, but no one comes away unscathed. Coming Home was praised for its sensitive performances, Jon Voight won the New York Film Critics Circle prize for Best Actor, and it was nominated for eight Oscars, but it was quickly overshadowed by Michael Cimino's more inflammatory Vietnam epic The Deer Hunter. Still, although The Deer Hunter won Best Picture, Fonda and Voight won Best Actress and Best Actor, and Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, and Robert C. Jones won an Oscar for their screenplay. By leaving the fighting offscreen and the ending ambiguous, Coming Home potently captured the elusive yet irreversible psychological disruption in the wake of Vietnam. [Review by Lucia Bozzola]

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Cast for Coming Home

Jane Fonda - Sally Hyde
Jon Voight - Luke Martin
Bruce Dern - Captain Bob Hyde
Robert Ginty - Sgt. Dink Mobley
Penelope Milford - Viola Munson
Robert Carradine - Bill Munson
Stacey Pickren - Sophie
James Richardson - Marine at Party
Kathleen Miller - Kathy Delise
Marc McClure - Highschool Class President
Richard Lawson - Pat
Willie Tyler - Virgil
Danny Tucker - Monty
Gwen van Dam - Mrs. Harris
Arthur Rosenberg - Bruce
Dennis Rucker - Marine at Party
Rita Taggart - Johnson
Tony Santoro - Porsche Policeman
Ken Augustine - Ken
David Clennon - Tim
Olivia Cole - Corrine
Pat Corley - Harris
Cornelius H. Austin, Jr. - Corny
Beeson Carroll - Captain Carl Delise
Jonathan Banks - Marine at Party
Mary Jackson - Fleta Wilson
Mary Gregory - Martha Vickery
Bruce French - Dr. Lincoln
Teresa Hughes - Nurse De Groot
Charles Cyphers - Pee Wee
Gary Lee Davis - Marine Recruiter
Sally Frei - Connie
Ron Amador - Beany

Crew for Coming Home

Hal Ashby - Director
Jerome Hellman - Producer
Nancy Dowd - Screenwriter
Robert Jones - Screenwriter
Robert C. Jones - Screenwriter
Waldo Salt - Screenwriter
Haskell Wexler - Cinematographer
Don Zimmerman - Editor
Michael Haller - Production Designer
James Schoppe - Production Designer
George P. Gaines - Set Designer / Production Designer
Michael W. Hoffman - Costume Designer
Jennifer Parsons - Costume Designer
Ann Roth - Costume Designer
Silvio Scarano - Costume Designer
Chuck Myers - First Assistant Director
Donald Thorin - Camera Operator
Buzz Knudson - Sound/Sound Designer

Awards for Coming Home

Best Actor (win) Jon Voight 1978 Academy
Best Actress (win) Jane Fonda 1978 Academy
Best Director (nom) Hal Ashby 1978 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Don Zimmerman 1978 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (win) Nancy Dowd 1978 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (win) Robert Jones 1978 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (win) Waldo Salt 1978 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1978 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Bruce Dern 1978 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Penelope Milford 1978 Academy
Best Male Performance (win) Jon Voight 1978 Cannes Film Festival
Competing Film Hal Ashby 1978 Cannes Film Festival
Best Actor (win) 1978 LA Film Critics Association
Best Actress (win) 1978 LA Film Critics Association
Best Film (win) 1978 LA Film Critics Association
Best Actor (win) Jon Voight 1978 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Actress Jane Fonda 1978 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film Hal Ashby 1978 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Actor (in Drama) (win) 1979 Golden Globe
Best Actress (in Drama) (win) 1979 Golden Globe

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