Coming Home
1978 film by Hal Ashby · Released February 15, 1978
Coming Home is a 1978 American romantic war drama film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay written by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones with a story by Nancy Dowd. It stars Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine and Robert Ginty. The film's narrative follows a perplexed woman, her Marine husband, and a paraplegic Vietnam War veteran with whom she develops a romantic relationship while her husband is deployed in Vietnam. Coming Home was theatrically released on February 15, 1978, to critical and commercial success.
Cast ages at release (February 15, 1978)
- Jane Fonda, as Sally Bender Hyde: 40
- Jon Voight, as Luke Martin: 39
- Bruce Dern, as Captain Bob Hyde: 41
- Penelope Milford, as Vi Munson: 29
- Robert Carradine, as Bill Munson: 23
- Robert Ginty, as Sergeant Dink Mobley: 29
- Charles Cyphers, as Pee Wee: 38
- David Clennon, as Tim: 34
- Mary Jackson, as Fleta Wilson: 67
- Pat Corley, as Harris: 47
- Olivia Cole, as Corrine: 35
- Beeson Carroll, as Captain Earl Delise: 43
- Bruce French, as Dr. Lincoln: 32
- Willie Tyler, as Virgil: 37
- Richard Lawson, as Pat: 30
- Jonathan Banks: 31
- Marc McClure, as high school class president: 20
- Hal Ashby: 48
- Kathleen Miller, as Kathy Delise: 32
- Tresa Hughes, as Nurse Degroot: 48
- Rita Taggart, as Johnson: 28