Excellent adaptation.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This is a hell of a movie. Not a lot of action, only relations between men and women. And the suffering from decisions of governments, merely based on balance of power, to sacrifice life of boys without them being dead.I really despise looking Anti-War movies, because most of them shows the actions of war, and most of the time, I meet some military guys who enjoy that as a kind of voyeurism.This movie took the choice of not showing a single act of war, and it is the best choice.The message is so strong, even 40 years later, it should keep anybody to go to war for any reason, because there are none.Watch it! Feel it! Understand it! A masterpiece.

Coming Home is a drama film that stars Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern. The screenplay is based loosely on the novel of the same name by George Davis.It was directed by Hal Ashby.The plot examines the impact of the Vietnam War among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when her gung-ho Marine husband Bob (Dern) heads to Vietnam in 1968, proper wife Sally Hyde (Fonda) decides to volunteer at the V.A. hospital where her new friend Vi works. There she meets Luke Martin (Voight), a former high-school classmate and Marine who has returned from Vietnam 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 After a Hong Kong visit with her increasingly withdrawn husband, Sally finds a love and companionship with Luke that she had never known with her husband.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. The film ends with Bob swimming out into the ocean in utter despair, presumably to kill himself. As Sally enters the supermarket at the end, the two doors close behind her, accidentally forming the symbolic phrase "Lucky Out". She and Luke are now free to pursue their romance.Coming Home is an excellent film which illuminates the conflicting attitudes on the Vietnam War debacle from the standpoint of three participants - Sally,Bob and Luke - and how it has affected their lives. It also has stellar performances from Fonda and Voight,who won Oscar for their role in it.Overall,it is classic film about the scars the Vietnam War left on the bodies, minds, and souls of many soldiers and civilians.

I know that "Coming Home" won several Oscars and is considered a classic, but I have one major gripe with this film. While I liked the film overall, I truly hated the film's soundtrack. Instead of incidental music, the film is FILLED with nothing but late 60s rock and roll in scene after scene after scene. This sort of thing started in the 1970s and a ton of films were just jam-packed full of pop or rock songs. But, it's very distracting to me--and I hate that there aren't enough quiet moments in the film and it feels, at times, like I'm watching MTV and not a serious drama. And, compared to other films that shove song after song into them (like "American Graffiti"), "Coming Home" is much, much more invasive in its use of music. The bottom line is that I HATED the soundtrack! The film is about a woman (Jane Fonda) who is home waiting for her husband (Bruce Dern) to return from his tour of duty in Vietnam. To fill her time, she volunteers to work with disabled men at the local VA hospital. Soon, she develops a relationship with a bitter paraplegic (Jon Voight). Over time, he lets go of much of his anger and he and Fonda have an affair. The impact of this on their marriage and Voight's subsequent anti-war crusade make up much of the rest of the film.The acting was pretty good--particularly Voight. As for Fonda, I thought she was just okay and wonder if her receiving the Oscar (along with Voight) was more of an anti-war statement or a show of support for her behaviors during the war. Or, possibly it was just a slow year. All I know is that I expected something more for a prize-winning performance. As for the story, it's very much anti-war--and emphasizes the emotional and physical toll on the men who fight. This is something applicable to all wars--not just Vietnam. This universality is heightened by having no footage of the war. Without the terrible music, I'd give this one a 9--with it, 7. Yes, the music was THAT annoying.By the way, this is a very adult film. It contains nudity and lots of harsh language. So, this is probably not a film to show your mother-in-law or a pre-school class.

"Coming Home" is an important film in the history of American cinema directed by Hal Ashby. He was an important cinema author who combined star power with ingenious subject matter.It is a matter of utter shame that films by veteran American independent cinema director Hal Ashby are not much known.This is the reason why he has remained an extremely talented filmmaker whose films have not been properly assessed by viewers.This is a sad thing about a filmmaker whose films always featured famous actors.Many of the films about Vietnam war are overtly dramatic and try to win viewers' sympathies by playing victim's card. "Coming home" is an exception to this rule as its canvass is broader in scope even though it talks about Vietnam war in an indirect manner.There are a couple of angles associated with this film.One of the simplest angles suggests that this is a simple story about a husband, his wife and a third person in her life.However,it is no so simple as it appears.A different serious angle states that people become frustrated when they don't have their loved ones around them. This is partly true about people who work for defense forces.In "Coming Home",there are some good glimpses of life at a military base especially in scenes about peaceful protests led by wheel chair bound Jon Voigt.Jane Fonda is good too in one of the best roles of her career.She shines as a quite soul who becomes involved in everything which happens around her."Coming Home" is great film about war without any bloodshed.It is a film which must be seen more than once in order to comprehend some lives whose foundation is built around hopelessness.