Coming Home

Coming Home (1978) is a war drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern. The film took home three Academy Awards, including acting prizes for both its leads.

Sally Hyde's husband ships out to Vietnam, and for the first time she has to figure out who she is without him. Volunteering at a veterans' hospital, she runs into Luke Martin — a former classmate who came back from the war paralyzed and furious about it. He's nothing like the decorated officer she married. That's the point. Their affair unfolds against a backdrop of protest marches and body bags, as the country slowly turns against the war that broke Luke and is still shaping her husband.

Hal Ashby built the film around a question the era couldn't shake: what does America do with the men it sends to fight and then forgets? Fonda and Voight both picked up Oscars for performances that don't let either character off the hook. One of the defining films of New Hollywood's anti-war cycle — stream Coming Home online on iFILM.