Here's a Coming Home movie about after the Iraq War. Parts of it The Deer Hunter, parts satire (Thank You for Smoking) and parts documentary (22 Suicides a day) it manages to handle all of these parts well. But when it switches gears, it happens suddenly and you don't quite realize what is happening.
Miles Teller is one of 3 friends who returns from their unit to a hero's welcome. Reality intrudes and each has to find his way back into a family/love structure, a job/lack thereof, and the morass of veteran's health care. Haley Bennett does a good turn as the war wife, and she skillfully goes to play the supporting side as well as the Stand on Your Own Two Feet side.
* * * * of 5
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