Coming Home

FOR LUKE MARTIN THE WAR NEVER ENDED COMING HOME is a rare thing: a moving war drama in which not a sngle shot is fired. The only battle scenes are those that are waged in the minds of its leading characters. Its setting is Los Angeles in 1968. Sally Hyde ( Jane Fonda) is an officer's wife who volunteers for work in an army veterans' hospital while her husband (Bruce Dern) is fighting in Vietnam. At the hospital Sally is appalled at what she sees - young men crippled and maimed for life because of a tragic and senseless war. One of her first encounters is with crippled Luke Martin (Jon Voight), an embittered Vietnam vet, the violence of whose frustration moves Sally to realise the tragic plight of such men. In time Sally and Luke fall in love, as a result of which Luke regains his will to live and, once again, finds a purpose and value to his life. © United Artists Corp