Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern make a pretty high-powered acting trio by anyone's standards, and their superior performances dominate this story of a Vietnam officer's wife who falls in love with a paraplegic just returned from the war. Despite the acting - especially by Fonda and Voight, who both won Academy Awards - this is essentially an old plot in new dressing. It's high-class Vietnam soap opera, in fact, with few surprises. One wonders if the heavy use of four-letter words in the script might have been more effective if confined to Voight's final speech which, as he drifts helplessly into a state of anguish, is still a high point of the actor's career to date. The film also benefits from the use on soundtrack of music from the period, notably by The Beatles and Rolling Stones.

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