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Places in the Heart is a quiet character piece with grand ambitions that it more than fulfills, thanks to absorbing work from writer-director Robert Benton and a tremendous cast.
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Places in the Heart is a loving, reflective homage to his hometown by writer-director Robert Benton. Jun 5, 2008 | Full Review…
Places in the Heart is a loving, reflective homage to his hometown by writer-director Robert Benton.
Variety Staff
Much is unemphatic, but all of it carries the moving weight of conviction. And it ends on a healing grace-note which passeth all understanding. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Much is unemphatic, but all of it carries the moving weight of conviction. And it ends on a healing grace-note which passeth all understanding.
Chris Peachment
[Benton's] memories provide the material for a wonderful movie, and he has made it, but unfortunately he hasn't stopped at that. He has gone on to include too much. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
[Benton's] memories provide the material for a wonderful movie, and he has made it, but unfortunately he hasn't stopped at that. He has gone on to include too much.
Roger Ebert
Out of the memories of his boyhood in Waxahachie, Tex., during the Great Depression, and within the unlikely tradition of the old-fashioned ''mortgage'' melodrama, Robert Benton has made one of the best films in years about growing up American. May 20, 2003
Out of the memories of his boyhood in Waxahachie, Tex., during the Great Depression, and within the unlikely tradition of the old-fashioned ''mortgage'' melodrama, Robert Benton has made one of the best films in years about growing up American.
Vincent Canby
Robert Benton spends most of this film signaling his intentions to make a noble, stirring piece of dust-bowl Americana on the model of a Ford or Vidor, yet the goods he delivers are wholly synthetic. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Robert Benton spends most of this film signaling his intentions to make a noble, stirring piece of dust-bowl Americana on the model of a Ford or Vidor, yet the goods he delivers are wholly synthetic.
Dave Kehr
Even in a year that included the formidable likes of Amadeus, Stop Making Sense and The Terminator, this was the best picture of 1984. Aug 8, 2015 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Even in a year that included the formidable likes of Amadeus, Stop Making Sense and The Terminator, this was the best picture of 1984.
Matt Brunson
Headed by the versatile Sally Field, the cast of Places in the Heart is almost a convention of Hollywood's best character actors. Mar 9, 2015 | Full Review…
Headed by the versatile Sally Field, the cast of Places in the Heart is almost a convention of Hollywood's best character actors.
David Sterritt
This remarkably poignant drama of Depression-era Texas boasts Sally Field's finest performance since her Oscar-winning Norma Rae five years ago. Mar 9, 2015
This remarkably poignant drama of Depression-era Texas boasts Sally Field's finest performance since her Oscar-winning Norma Rae five years ago.
Peter Travers
A beautifully paced and sumptuously shot heart-twanger that won Sally Field a richly deserved best actress Oscar. Mar 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A beautifully paced and sumptuously shot heart-twanger that won Sally Field a richly deserved best actress Oscar.
Sue Heal
Inspiring, intense tale about hardship, bigotry, redemption. May 5, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Inspiring, intense tale about hardship, bigotry, redemption.
Renee Schonfeld
Benton effectively re-creates depression-era Texas in this moving tale that landed the second Oscar for Field. Jan 3, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Benton effectively re-creates depression-era Texas in this moving tale that landed the second Oscar for Field.
Set in the Depression, Benton's memory film is too sanctimonious and idealistic, showing how economic misery and hard times bring out the best, here in the form of a new community, composed of a white widow and her children, a black hobo and a blind. Dec 6, 2007 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Set in the Depression, Benton's memory film is too sanctimonious and idealistic, showing how economic misery and hard times bring out the best, here in the form of a new community, composed of a white widow and her children, a black hobo and a blind.
Emanuel Levy
'Places' is OK, but as much as it is supposed to be an uplifting movie about unlikely survival during the Depression, I found it depressing as in the end, it is only by luck and Moze that Edna survives - and next year, with neither Moze or luck on your side, she will lose the farm anyway.
Super Reviewer
A well polished pieces but sometimes these bits of drippiness weigh heavily on me. Just have to get me in the right mood to like this one more.
Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris 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 cotten to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind border, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortage payment on time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One of my favorite Sally Field movie's. She gives a great performance along with a great cast. This movie could probly relate to a lot of people who are trying to make it through hard times, while trying to keep their home and family together. I highly recommend this movie to all.
sally's very good but the film is slow
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