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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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All Critics (38) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (4)
You must simply accept the flood of emotion and let it wash over you, because the tears are jerked by performances that are informed by intelligence and taste as well as emotional honesty. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
You must simply accept the flood of emotion and let it wash over you, because the tears are jerked by performances that are informed by intelligence and taste as well as emotional honesty.
Megan Rosenfeld
I have no doubt that Robert Benton's Oscar-nominated Places In The Hear is a sincere film. But I find it pretty egregious just the same, covered with a thin layer of Hollywood treacle that consistently' prevents it packing the emotional punch intended. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
I have no doubt that Robert Benton's Oscar-nominated Places In The Hear is a sincere film. But I find it pretty egregious just the same, covered with a thin layer of Hollywood treacle that consistently' prevents it packing the emotional punch intended.
Derek Malcolm
[The] story has the fond hues and textures of instant nostalgia, cosily wrapped in the Sunday rituals of the film's leisurely start and outrageously sentimental finish. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
[The] story has the fond hues and textures of instant nostalgia, cosily wrapped in the Sunday rituals of the film's leisurely start and outrageously sentimental finish.
Philip Strick
This is Benton back to his best -- the writer of Bonnie and Clyde and director of Bod Company, who finds the beating heart of his country in the countryside. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
This is Benton back to his best -- the writer of Bonnie and Clyde and director of Bod Company, who finds the beating heart of his country in the countryside.
Nigel Andrews
For all its ingratiating certainties about human values, this rural drama has been pieced together with evident skill and care. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
For all its ingratiating certainties about human values, this rural drama has been pieced together with evident skill and care.
Keith Nurse
[Places in the Heart is] sweet, though not saccharine. If the sense of place is very strong here, it's because four generations of Bentons have lived in the town where the story happens and the movie was filmed. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
[Places in the Heart is] sweet, though not saccharine. If the sense of place is very strong here, it's because four generations of Bentons have lived in the town where the story happens and the movie was filmed.
Pamela Kessler
Places in the Heart is not an altogether memorable film, but what strength it possesses comes from the fact that it has the courage of its orthodox convictions. April 7, 2020 | Full Review…
Places in the Heart is not an altogether memorable film, but what strength it possesses comes from the fact that it has the courage of its orthodox convictions.
Peter Ackroyd
Sally Field gives her best performance ever. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
Sally Field gives her best performance ever.
Molly Haskell
Places in the Heart is a soft title for a strong movie. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
Places in the Heart is a soft title for a strong movie.
Suzanne Sander-Lofft
Places of the Heart, too, seems an idealized vision of a film that might have been, but just didn't quite survive the journey from Robert Benton's heart to the audience's. March 23, 2020 | Full Review…
Places of the Heart, too, seems an idealized vision of a film that might have been, but just didn't quite survive the journey from Robert Benton's heart to the audience's.
Rick Chatenever
To buy the movie, one has to buy the director's particular brand of Christian quietism. August 21, 2019 | Full Review…
To buy the movie, one has to buy the director's particular brand of Christian quietism.
Susan Jhirad
Even in a year that included the formidable likes of Amadeus, Stop Making Sense and The Terminator, this was the best picture of 1984. August 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.
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