Places in the Heart (1984)
Director:
Robert Benton
Tagline:
« The story of a woman fighting for her children, for her land, for the greatest dream there is…the future. »
Actors:
Edna Spalding
Margaret Lomax
Wayne Lomax
Viola Kelsey
Mr. Will
Genre:
Drama
Rating:
(15’760 votes)
(15’760 votes)
Quotes:
[first lines]
« Edna Spalding: [seeing her daughter's doll at the dinner table] Possum, put that up now.
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« 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.
»
« Edna Spalding: You took a no-account piece of land and a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doin' and you farmed that land better than anybody could – colored or white. You're the one that brought in the first bale of cotton this year. Don't you ever forget that.
»
« Edna Spalding: Mr. Simmons, I want 4 and a half cents a pound for my cotton.
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« W.E. Simmons: God Almighty, lady, you don't want me, you want Santa Claus.
»
Trailer:
Trailer
Runtime:111 minutes
Plots:
In north Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.
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. Moses, a wandering Black man,helps her plant cotton to try to keep her farm and family together. She also takes in a blind boarder, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the Great War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try to make her mortgage payment on time.
In 1935 rural Texas, recently-widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run and very little money in the bank–not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister Margaret, blind boarder Mr. Will, and Moze, a would-be thief who decides to stick around to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.
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