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.
Acting
Voight's hospital monologue will wreck you.
Direction
Ashby lets scenes breathe until they hurt.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like people actually talking.
Director
Hal Ashby
Jane Fonda
Sally Hyde
Jon Voight
Luke Martin
Bruce Dern
Capt. Bob Hyde
Penelope Milford
Vi Munson
Robert Carradine
Bill Munson
Robert Ginty
Sgt. Dink Mobley
Kathleen Miller
Kathy Delise
Beeson Carroll
Capt. Earl Delise
Willie Tyler
Virgil
Charles Cyphers
Pee Wee
Olivia Cole
Corrine
Tresa Hughes
Nurse Degroot
Bruce French
Dr. Lincoln
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fonda and Voight both won Oscars, but the film was Hal Ashby's revenge on Hollywood for rejecting his humanity.
The wheelchair sex scene was groundbreaking—Ashby consulted disabled veterans to get it right, and the MPAA almost slapped it with an X.
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