Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart

1984 · 1 hr 51 min · PG

Drama

Directors

Robert Benton

Actors

  • Sally Field
  • Lindsay Crouse
  • Ed Harris

Credits: 5

Summary

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.

More about this movie

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.

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