Another bring-the-Vietnam-War-home movie. This one is so bad that it makes the faults of In Country seem like artistic flourishes. Kris Kristofferson is Lieutenant Jake Robbins, shot down over Cambodia in 1970 and presumed dead. His wife, Sarah (JoBeth Williams), certainly presumed so. She stayed in Vermont near Jake's widowed father, Harry (Brian Keith), but remarried, this time to Woody (Sam Waterston), a businessman who is raising Sarah and Jake's son, Tyler (Thomas Wilson Brown), now a teenager, as his own. Then, boom, a feverish Jake is discovered in the jungle in 1987. To Uncle Sam, represented by Colonel Barnes (the late Trey Wilson), Jake is an embarrassment sure to stir up an outcry about other soldiers thought to be missing in action. Jake's family doesn't find him any easier to take; it seems Jake took a Cambodian wife in the jungle and had two kids.

Kristofferson shouts a lot and cries a lot. He's a man of feelings. There are enough tearful reunion scenes to stock a season of soap operas. Such blubbering hardly befits Kristofferson or Oscar-winning director Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton), who died shortly after the film was completed. Welcome Home cheapens an important subject. It's a lazy con job that fails as memorial and moviemaking.

“(We're Not) The Jet Set”

George Jones and Tammy Wynette were still married when they recorded the tongue-in-cheek "(We're Not) The Jet Set." The lyrics, written by Nashville songwriter Bobby Braddock, who also penned Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today," make fun of the good life by declaring, "We're not the Jet Set/We're the old Chevrolet set." Braddock recalled that while writing the song, he needed the name of a city that evened out the rhyme he had with "Riviera" and "Missourah." “I got out a Rand McNally atlas," he said. "In the first part are the maps. The last part is an alphabetical listing of cities. I wanted a rustic, small-time sound. I went to the listing for Missouri. And I found 'Festus.' I loved the sound of it."