WELCOME HOME begins as Air Force pilot Jake Robbins (Kris Kristofferson), declared a Vietnam War casualty in 1970, resurfaces in 1987. When his Cambodian wife brings the sick Jake to Thailand for hospitalization, she and their two children are taken to a border refugee camp. Jake winds up
back Stateside, causing a crisis for the wife he left behind, Sarah (JoBeth Williams)--who has made a new life with a second husband (Sam Waterston)--and for Jake and Sarah's son (Thomas Wilson Brown), who thinks Jake is a deserter. While trying to make peace with his past and with his son, Jake
wages a running battle with military bureaucracy as he tries to reunite with his Cambo...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
87 mins