# Le retour (1978)

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**Original title**: *Coming Home*
**Runtime**: 127 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance, War
**Directed by**: Hal Ashby
**Written by**: Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones
**Starring**: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty

> *A man who believed in war! A man who believed in nothing! And a woman who believed in both of them!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Marine officer’s wife in 1968 California discovers the heart isn’t as bound by duty as the rest of her. After her husband’s deployment, she reconnects with a high school acquaintance now confined to a wheelchair. Three people learn love doesn’t always travel in expected directions.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, raw, tender

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