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Released
1978 · FILM

Coming Home

A Marine officer’s wife seeks purpose at home while her husband is away at war, only to be drawn into a passionate bond with a wounded veteran that forces her to confront loyalty, love, and the scars of conflict.

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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Runtime
127 min
DramaRomanceWar

Synopsis

In 1968 in California, a Marine officer's wife develops a romantic relationship with a former high school classmate who was paralyzed as a result of a combat injury sustained during the war.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Don ZimmermanShot by Haskell WexlerDesigned by Michael D Haller

Box Office

1978 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 11× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$32.7M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$32.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Coming Home - Sie kehren heimde
  • Le Retourfr
  • Tornando a casait

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