1978 · drama · romance · war
Coming Home
Directed by Hal Ashby2h 7m1978
In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
Our read: Coming Home (1978) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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