Academy Awards, USA 1979
| Winner Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role Jon Voight |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role Jane Fonda | |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Nancy Dowd (story) Waldo Salt (screenplay) Robert C. Jones (screenplay) | |
| Nominee Oscar | Best Picture Jerome Hellman |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role Bruce Dern | |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role Penelope Milford | |
| Best Director Hal Ashby | |
| Best Film Editing Don Zimmerman |
United Artists
Directed by Hal Ashby
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Kino Lorber)
Military wife Jane Fonda adjusts to life without her husband who goes to Vietnam. She moves into a beach house with the freewheeling girlfriend of another enlistee she just met. They volunteer together at the local VA hospital where wounded vets recuperate from their physical and emotional wounds. She meets paraplegic Jon Voight. After an antagonistic beginning, her patience wins him over and they become friends and eventually lovers. Things get complicated when her husband returns. The subject matter alone makes this an important film, and there is an immense amount of talent involved. However, it veers uncomfortably into melodrama, and Dern in particular cannot overcome his stereotyped sadistic tendencies in a contrived ending. Nonstop soundtrack of sixties hits distracts from rather than adds to the atmosphere.
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