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Places in the Heart (1984)

 -  Drama  -  21 September 1984 (USA)
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In 1930's Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.

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Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind boarder, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortgage payment on time. Written by Susan Southall <stobchatay@aol.com>

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cotton | farm | sheriff | 1930s | cotton farm | See more »

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The story of a woman fighting for her children, for her land, for the greatest dream there is...the future.

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21 September 1984 (USA)  »

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En un lugar del corazón  »

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$34,700,000 (USA)
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Sally Field's heartfelt Oscar acceptance speech for this film has often been misquoted over the years. Here it is verbatim: "This means so much more to me this time, I don't know why. I think the first time I hardly felt it because it was all too new. But I want to 'thank you' to you. I haven't had an orthodox career. And I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it. But this time I feel it. And I can't deny the fact that you like me... right now... you like me. Thank you." See more »

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A scene in the kitchen shows iron skillets and other cookware. It's all gray. Only new iron cookware is gray. After it's been used, if only for a month or two, it turns black. See more »

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[first lines]
Edna Spalding: [seeing her daughter's doll at the dinner table] Possum, put that up now.
Royce Spalding: Our Heavenly Father, bless this meal and all those who are about to receive it. Make us thankful for Your generous bounty, and Your unceasing love. Please remind us, in these hard times, to be grateful for what we have been given, and not to ask for what we can not have. And make us mindful of those less fortunate among us, as we sit at this table with all of Thy bounty. Amen.
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"In The Garden"
Words and Music by Austin Miles
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Flawed, though exceptionally tender and well-acted
22 March 2007 | by (las vegas, nv) – See all my reviews

That thudding, metaphorical title not withstanding (thankfully it isn't literal), this is a lovely reminiscence from writer-director Robert Benton, an autobiographical story about a Texas brood during the Depression having to make ends meet after the family patriarch is killed. Sally Field won a well-deserved Oscar as the widow who decides to grow cotton on her land to save her house from being taken by the bank; Danny Glover gives his best performance as a drifter who helps her and John Malkovich is equally good as a blind boarder. What doesn't work is a sub-plot concerning Field's sister (Lindsay Crouse) and her marital problems: seems husband Ed Harris has the roving eye, but his affair with Crouse-lookalike Amy Madigan doesn't involve us the way it is meant to--we just bide our time waiting for Field's return. Still it's a gently sentimental tale, full of great care and disarming gumshun, though the tag at the end (more metaphors!) comes off cold. **1/2 from ****


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