Word: vet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-war, sensitive film. As the wife of a bonkers Army Man (brilliantly played, save for the cop-out deus ex machina, by Bruce Dern), Fonda gives one of the best performances of her rather spotty acting career. She is frustrated, repressed and lonely until she meets a crippled vet in an army hospital. That vet--played by Jon Voigt --turns her life around and brings himself to peace in the process. Voigt steals the film with a brilliant performance. Its philosophy may be a beat oatmealish, but it's still interesting and worthwhile...
...school students, that "we have a decision to be made here." That decision is whether or not to continue to blindly pursue our rather dubious war goals. It is a question, of course, that runs thoughout the movie, right from the opening scene in which a bunch of handicapped vets, lounging around a pool table, are discussing whether they'd go again if they had the chance to do it over. One guy explains why he would, much to the disbelief of his companions, and much of the rest of the movie is devoted to showing why his reasons...
Admittedly, Coming Home is a rather heavy-handed attempt to redefine such concepts as manhood, patriotism, and love. Activist and associate producer Bruce Gilbert, who conceived the idea for the movie along with Fonda, claims the original black and white differences between the hawkish marine and the anti-war vet were toned down. The stereotypes, however, are still very heavily drawn: the ultra-macho Dern, whose buddies' idea of a perfect party for him is "a side of beef and a case of Jack Daniels," is totally insensitive in bed, gung-ho about the war, and outraged when his wife...
...thermodynamics, the first law of survival, high fashion and low animal cunning. The plot is diabolically clever. Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, the world's leading female pilot and bisexual author of the bestselling Beyond Motherhood, stumbles into the service of Jim Kelly, a golden-haired Viet Nam vet who fancies himself Kalki, the Hindu god whose job it is to ring down the curtain on the material universe. Teddy needs the money; she is behind in alimony payments to her ex-husband...
...scoring parade continued as Kirkland regained the lead on its next possession. Signal-calling vet Fran Hickey picked apart the vaunted Winthrop defense on a 68-yard march, calling his own number on a two-yard keeper that went...