Coming home

A lonely army wife (Jane Fonda), whose husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paralysed veteran (Jon Voight) she meets while working as a volunteer in the Army base hospital. An unusually mature examination of the effect of the Vietnam War on the lives of American servicemen. Winner of Academy Awards for Fonda and Voight. Based on a story by Nancy Dowd.

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Credits

director

Hal Ashby

producer

Jerome Hellman

production company

United Artists Corporation

Duration

02:07:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1978

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302681

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Adaptations

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Motion pictures and the war

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Psychological aspects

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Literature → American literature - Film and video adaptations

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United States, 1978

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