Coming Home (1978)
Directed by Hal Ashby · Cinematography by Haskell Wexler
R127 min61 frames
DramaRomanceWar
A man who believed in war! A man who believed in nothing! And a woman who believed in both of them!
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What is Coming Home about?
In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
Coming Home is a 1978 American romantic war drama film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay written by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones with a story by Nancy Dowd. It stars Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine and Robert Ginty. The film's narrative follows a perplexed woman, her Marine husband, and a paraplegic Vietnam War veteran with whom she develops a romantic relationship while her husband is deployed in Vietnam.
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What does the cinematography of Coming Home look like?
Sampled across 61 frames, the coverage of Coming Home leans on medium shots (61% of the sample) and close-ups (18%). Cinematographer Haskell Wexler keeps 52% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 54% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 74% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
What is the color palette of Coming Home?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Coming Home (1978) are #32312d, #54524c, #12100e, #261812, #75706b, #928b75 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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