Rent Coming Home (1978)
3.7 of 5 from 118 ratings
2h 3min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- When Marine Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern) leaves for Vietnam, his wife Sally (Jane Fonda) volunteers at a local hospital. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a former sergeant whose war injury has left him a paraplegic. Embittered with rage and filled with frustration, Luke finds new hope and confidence through his growing intimacy with Sally. The relationship also transforms Sally's feelings about life, love and the horrors of war. And when, wounded and disillusioned, Sally's husband returns home, all three must grapple with the full impact of a brutal, distant war that has changed their lives forever.
- Actors:
- Jane Fonda, Jon Voight., Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty, Mary Gregory, Kathleen Miller, Beeson Carroll, Willie Tyler, Louis Carello, Charles Cyphers, Olivia Cole, Tresa Hughes, Bruce French, Mary Jackson, Tim Pelt, Richard Lawson, Rita Taggart, Claudie Watson
- Directors:
- Hal Ashby
- Producers:
- Jerome Hellman
- Writers:
- Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones, Nancy Dowd, Rudy Wurlitzer
- Others:
- Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones, Nancy Dowd, Don Zimmerman
- Aka:
- Buffalo Ghosts
- Studio:
- MGM
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
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- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 15/07/2019
- Run Time:
- 127 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new and exclusive audio commentary by author Scott Harrison
- Feature-length commentary with actors Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler
- Coming Back Home (25 mins) - archival featurette
- Man Out of Time (15 mins) - archival featurette
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Reviews (2) of Coming Home
TAKE IT HOME - Coming Home review by PT
A fantastic film dealing with post Vietnam vets and the women in their lives. A thoughtful insight into how war affects the psyche of men and women. Terrific performances from the three leads, especially Fonda picking up the Oscar for best actress for her endeavours.
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Home Truths - Coming Home review by griggs
Hal Ashby somehow pulls off the impossible: a film so upfront about its politics that it never feels like it’s lecturing you. Coming Home is loose, warm and deeply human, so the Vietnam-era anger flows through you rather than at you.
The soundtrack is wall-to-wall period gold, but it’s the performances that bring it all the way home. Fonda is magnetic. And watching Jon Voight here made me mourn seventies Jon Voight before Trump and the culture wars melted his brain — soulful, vulnerable, politically engaged, and extraordinary.
Not quite a masterpiece, but close enough that walking away feels like a betrayal.
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