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- Six years later, Voight delivered another searing performance opposite Jane Fonda in "Coming Home," this time as a Vietnam War Veteran who's lost the use of his legs. Voight prepared by spending nine weeks in an L.A. hospital with wounded vets, and learning to live as a paraplegic.
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Coming Home premiered at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, where Voight won the award for Best Actor for his performance. The film was released in the U.S. in February 1978. It proved popular with audiences and received generally good reviews.
Aug 8, 2015 · ‘Coming Home’ (1978): An Understated Brilliant Film About After Effects of War. Gautam Anand. August 8, 2015. In 1978, Hollywood was finally prepared to deal with the war in Vietnam on film. For years it had been more or less a taboo subject, an open wound no one wanted to discuss or see.
That is the Sally Hyde at the beginning of Hal Ashby's "Coming Home," an extraordinarily moving film. The Sally Hyde at the end of the film -- about a year later -- is a different person, confused in her loyalties, not sure of her beliefs, awakened to new feelings within her. She hasn't turned into a political activist or a hippie or any of ...
Feb 15, 1978 · With Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford. In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
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Sep 9, 2022 · Jon Voight was born December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, New York. He earned widespread acclaim for his role in 1969's Midnight Cowboy, and an Academy Award in 1979 for the Vietnam War drama Coming Home ...
In 1978, Voight portrayed the Vietnam veteran Luke Martin in Hal Ashby's film Coming Home, and was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of a cynical, yet noble paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar-activist Ron Kovic, with whom Jane Fonda's character falls in love. The film included ...
Feb 13, 1978 · Mr. Voight's preparation for playing an embittered paraplegic Vietnam veteran in “Coming.Home'—in which he gives his most important performance in years—involved spending five weeks...
