Places In The Heart
Drama
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (1984) 112 mins PG

7.4 (3,043 votes)
Acclaimed by critics all over the country and boasting an Academy Award®-winning performance by Sally Field, Places In The Heart is a landmark film. Its emotionally gripping story centers around Edna Spalding (Field) and her unending struggle against extraordinary hardships. But, as recalled from director-writer Robert Benton's own childhood, it's also a portrait of a time and a place and a people.

It is the 1930s in Waxahachie, Texas. Against this Depression-torn background, unforgettable characters meet and collide. Like Mr. Will (John Malkovich), the blind boarder who sees all to clearly the bigotry of his time... Moze (Danny Glover), a black man who knows a lot, including his own place in a white Southern town... and Wayne (Ed Harris), Margaret (Lindsay Crouse) and Viola (Amy Madigan), decent people caught up in an adulterous triangle which threatens two marriages...

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Cast and Crew
Sally Field  ......  Edna Spalding
Lindsay Crouse  ......  Margaret Lomax
Ed Harris  ......  Wayne Lomax
Amy Madigan  ......  Viola Kelsey
John Malkovich  ......  Mr. Will
Danny Glover  ......  Moze
Director  .....  Robert Benton
Producer  .....  Arlene Donovan
Writer  .....  Robert Benton
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: Frank's top button after stopping to took at the homeless woman during the storm. (more)

Trivia:
Although they first met years earlier, actors Ed Harris and Amy Madigan got married after working together on this film. (more)

Filming Locations:
Ellis County, Texas, USA (more)

Quotes:
[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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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 11 nominations (more)