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Verenigde Staten
Drama
126 minuten

geregisseerd door Hal Ashby
met Jane Fonda, Jon Voight en Bruce Dern

Nadat een marine-kapitein is vertrokken naar het front in Vietnam, begint zijn vrouw met vrijwillegerswerk in een veteranenziekenhuis. Daar ontmoet ze een verbitterde, maar charismatische verlamde, en begint een relatie met hem.


Description
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Both Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for their performances in this profoundly moving 1978 flick dealing with the aftereffects of the Vietnam War. Fonda, feeling isolated while her hawkish husband, Bruce Dern, is away in Vietnam, follows a friend's example and volunteers at a veteran's hospital. 

There she is reacquainted with Voight, an old friend who has returned from the war as a paraplegic. Lonely and disconnected from her husband, Fonda finds love, and fulfilling sex, with Voight. The sex scenes, very steamy for the time, are still provocative. This mature love story is about expanding your horizons, and is both moving and thoughtful. Director Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude) does succumb to melodrama on occasion, but these are forgivable slips.

Awards:
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 Academy Awards for 
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jon Voight)
Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jane Fonda) 
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Jones, Salt, and Dowd). 
nominations: 
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Bruce Dern), 
Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Penelope Milford), 
Best Director, 
Best Film Editing 
Best Picture.

The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival and Voight won the Award for Best Actor for his performance.



Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.78 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 127 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Sound (main feature): English | French | Spanish

Subtitles: optional English | French | Spanish


DISC FEATURES:

# Featurettes: "Coming Back Home" & "Hal Ashby: A Man out of Time".
# Audio commentary with Jon Voight, Bruce Dern & Haskell Wexler.
# Original theatrical trailer.



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