Coming Home is a 1978 drama film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern. The screenplay, written by Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd and Rudy Wurlitzer , is based loosely on the novel of the same name by George Davis. The plot follows a love triangle between a young woman, her Marine husband and the paralyzed Vietnam War veteran she meets while her husband is overseas. In the spring of 1968 in California, Sally , a loyal and conservative military wife, is married to Bob Hyde , a Captain in the United States Marine Corps who is sent over to Vietnam. As... a dedicated military officer, Bob sees it primarily as an opportunity for progress. At first, Sally dreads being left alone, but after a while she feels liberated. Forced to find housing off the base she moves into a new apartment by the beach and buys a sports car. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital. This, in part, is motivated by her bohemian friend Vi Munson, whose brother Billy has come home after just two weeks in Vietnam with grave emotional problems and now resides in the VA hospital.
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| Release date: | February 15, 1978 |
| Directed by: | Hal Ashby |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 126 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jerome Hellman, Bruce Gilbert |
| Editor: | Don Zimmerman |
| Cinematography: | Haskell Wexler |
| Screenplay by: | Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones, Nancy Dowd |