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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
To buy the movie, one has to buy the director's particular brand of Christian quietism. Aug 20, 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. 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.
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