The Contenders:
Ingrid Bergman: Autumn Sonata
Jane Fonda: Coming Home (winner)
Geraldine Page: Interiors
Ellen Burstyn: Same Time, Next Year
Jill Clayburgh: An Unmarried Woman
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Film: Coming Home
Format: DVD from NetFlix on rockin’ flatscreen.
Format: DVD from NetFlix on rockin’ flatscreen.
I did a little investigating on Coming Home before I watched it. Based on the story it tells, it’s not really a huge shock that the story comes from Jane Fonda’s association with Ron Kovic, the Vietnam veteran whose story became Born on the Fourth of July. There are some similarities here, both on and below the surface. Fonda, of course, was an activist against the war, as was Kovic. It’s hardly a shock, then, that our main male character her is a Vietnam veteran, in a wheelchair, and an active anti-war activist.
We start with two stories only slightly separated. Luke Martin (Jon Voight) is a paralyzed war veteran trying to recuperate in a VA hospital. We’re introduced to him briefly before we spend some time with Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) and her husband, Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), who is just about to be deployed to the war. Off the captain goes, along with his friend Sergeant Dink Mobley (Robert Ginty). This introduces Sally to Vi Munson (Penelope Milford), Dink’s girlfriend and soon to be Sally’s friend, roommate, and confidant.
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