Claim: Jane Fonda starred  as the main character in Coming Home.

Coming Home is a 1978 American drama film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jane Fonda , Jon Voight and Bruce Dern . The screenplay by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones was from a story by Nancy Dowd . The plot follows the drama between a young woman , her Marine husband and the paralyzed Vietnam War veteran she meets while her husband is overseas . Fonda and Voight won Academy Awards for their performances , while Dern was nominated for an Academy Award .