Coming Home (Buffalo Ghosts) (1978)

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7.3	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Hal Ashby

Starring (View all)

Jane Fonda
Sally Hyde

Jon Voight
Luke Martin

Bruce Dern
Capt. Bob Hyde

Penelope Milford
Vi Munson

Robert Carradine
Bill Munson

Robert Ginty
Sgt. Dink Mobley

Mary Gregory
Martha Vickery

Willie Tyler
Virgil

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Waldo Salt
(screenplay) and

Robert C. Jones
(screenplay)

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4 years, 2 months ago at Sep 27 2:40

fernando

(OK) Taking apart the too loud and gratuitous soundtrack of covers; Ashby has feeling for social themes in a conventional narration, Fonda is convincing as a veteran wife, becuase in fact is in love with an antiwar hero...

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Description: A critically acclaimed film about the lingering wounds inflicted by the Vietnam War, this powerful drama ... Full Descriptionexamines the growing relationship between a woman who volunteers to help disabled vets and a bitter paraplegic under her care. 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, psychol ... (more)

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