Also Known As: En un lugar del corazón
Company: Delphi II Productions / TriStar Pictures
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Plot: 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.
Cast and Character: Sally Field as Edna Spalding / Lindsay Crouse as Margaret Lomax / Ed Harris as Wayne Lomax / Amy Madigan as Viola Kelsey / John Malkovich as Mr. Will / Danny Glover as Moze / Yankton Hatten as Frank Spalding / Gennie James as Possum Spalding / Lane Smith as Albert Denby / Terry O'Quinn as Buddy Kelsey / Bert Remsen as Tee Tot Hightower / Ray Baker as Sheriff Royce Spalding / Jay Patterson as W.E. Simmons / Toni Hudson as Ermine / De'voreaux White as Wylie
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: 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.
Directors: Robert Benton
Genres: Drama
Location: Ellis County, Texas, USA
MPAA: PG
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0087921.jpg
Rating: 7.3
Release Date: 21 September 1984 (USA)
Runtime: 111 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: The story of a woman fighting for her children, for her land, for the greatest dream there is...the future.
Title: Places in the Heart
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087921/
Votes: 5,367
Writers: Robert Benton
Year: 1984
Places in the Heart got rated 7.3.
About the movie: 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.
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco got rated 7.7.
About the movie: Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Petulia got rated 7.0.
About the movie: When she sees him at a hospital fund-raiser, newlywed San Francisco socialite Petulia Danner, who has been married to naval engineer David Danner for six months, seems determined to have an affair with soon to be divorced physician Dr. Archie Bollen, who has been married to his wife Polo for close to ten years, their marriage which many saw as being perfect. Archie doesn't even know Petulia's name, but only knows her as the woman who brought in a young Mexican boy into the hospital with serious injuries. Petulia's pursuit of Archie is relentless - she even declaring that they will someday be married - even as Archie dates another woman named May. Archie eventually learns part of the reason why Petulia is so determined to cheat on David as her relationship to David and David's wealthy father are brought to light. Archie also learns that getting involved with Petulia in any regard has its consequences, both for Petulia herself and for him, most specifically in his relationship to Polo.
The Parallax View got rated 7.2.
About the movie: Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to realize that the assassination was part of a conspiracy somehow involving the Parallax Corporation, an enigmatic training institute. He then decides to enroll for the Parallax training himself to discover the truth.
