Word: voigt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming Home--This is a fairly decent film about a Vietnam veteran (Jon Voigt) who comes home, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and then falls in love with Jane Fonda, while her husband Bruce Stern has only just departed for Asia himself. The only drawbacks in this movie are that its points are not made very subtly, but rather clobber you over the head with theories on what that war was all about, in case you don't know already...
...from the old John Wayne tough-guy type, who had no sympathy for women, and required complete submission, of the Marilvn Monroe variety, for anything to work out. Whether or not women would be happy with Alan Bates, who is quiet and artistic, or John Voigt, who is paralyzed from the waist down, or Philippe Noiret, who is almost senile, is another question...
...they are weak and confused. There is little doubt that Fonda is going to go back to her husband, Bruce Dern, once he pulls himself together and stops reliving his Vietnam days, pulling out bayonets in the living room and threatening to kill everyone. Yes, her little affair with Voigt, the radical Vietnam paraplegic, was a mind-opening and beautiful experience for her, but is she really going to live a with someone who's paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life? And Clayburgh, although she does go through a deep, soul-searching experience with...
...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...
...down a remote country river and find survival in the wilderness to be more than they can handle. As the self-confident superjock who leads the expedition, Burt Reynolds actually gets to act--something he hasn't done since, even in the much-touted but disappointing "Semi-Tough. Jon Voigt and Ned Beatty are also excellent. (The latter's "squeal like a pig" scene is a memorably gruesome portrayal of humiliation.) The film has a great deal of violence, and a long, agonizing sequence in which Voight tortuously scales the face of a cliff. But ultimately, "Deliverance" is most upsetting...