En el centro de Texas en la década de 1930, una viuda, con dos niños pequeños, trata de administrar su pequeña granja de 40 acres con la ayuda de dos personas.En el centro de Texas en la década de 1930, una viuda, con dos niños pequeños, trata de administrar su pequeña granja de 40 acres con la ayuda de dos personas.En el centro de Texas en la década de 1930, una viuda, con dos niños pequeños, trata de administrar su pequeña granja de 40 acres con la ayuda de dos personas.
- Ganó 2 premios Óscar
- 13 premios y 14 nominaciones en total
- Wylie
- (as DeVoreaux White)
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- CuriosidadesAlthough they first met years earlier, actor Ed Harris and actress Amy Madigan got married after working together on this film.
- PifiasThe tornado winds upend cars and cause houses to explode, but Moze's hat stays on his head while he drags Frank into the storm cellar.
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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.
- Versiones alternativasNBC edited 2 minutes from this film for its 1987 network television premiere.
- Banda sonoraIn The Garden
Words and Music by Austin Miles
Places in the Heart takes place in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 and our director was born there in 1932. The film is a personal vision of his childhood in that small Texas town. It bears a whole lot of resemblance to To Kill a Mockingbird, except that the adult protagonist is not a widower lawyer, but the widowed wife of a sheriff left to fend for herself after her husband is killed.
Benton creates his characters with a loving hand, but that does not mean he doesn't see the flaws in the people there, the racism, the sexism, the hypocrisy and the pettiness. Field's husband, Ray Baker, is killed by a drunken black man accidentally. Killing a law enforcement official probably would have gotten him legally executed in any event, but the town administers its own brand of justice to the perpetrator.
That being said, it still doesn't solve the problem of a woman who has no education or training to support herself and her family. Sally gets the idea to grow cotton on the few acres her husband left her and gets a pair of strange allies in John Malkovich and Danny Glover to help her.
Glover is an itinerant hobo who is the one who if he knows anything knows cotton from his sharecropping background. He's who really holds the family together in the crisis. John Malkovich is a blind man whose brother-in-law is unctuous town banker, Lane Smith, who essentially dumps him on Field because he doesn't want to care for him. Malkovich who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor proves to be a faithful friend.
Lindsay Crouse was nominated for Best Supporting Actress as Field's sister. There's a subplot in the film involving her and her philandering husband Ed Harris.
Robert Benton won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for Best Director and Sally Field won her second Oscar for Places in the Heart. Her character isn't as feisty as her first Oscar winner, Norma Rae, but Edna Spalding certainly has the same grit.
Period country and gospel music make up the soundtrack for Places in the Heart. Old line Protestant hymns Blessed Assurance begins the film and In The Garden is the theme for the surreal ending.
I can't describe the ending except that it is one of the most beautiful in the history of cinema. It's a vision of what promise we have either in heaven or a utopia we make on earth where the things that divide humankind are washed away and we are in fellowship with each other and our Maker.
You have to have a heart of diamond if you are not moved by Places in the Heart.
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- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 34.901.614 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 274.279 US$
- 23 sept 1984
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 34.901.614 US$