Film · Tri-Star · 1984
Pass it on
Places in the Heart
80Living historically.
See it for the crop and the table, not for a gentle Depression.
The review
The work is the crop. A Texas widow in the Depression, after her sheriff husband is killed, has to bring the cotton in or lose the farm. A blind boarder joins the house. A Black man who knows cotton helps, and he is in danger for being there. I did not find a sermon about grit. I found a harvest that will fail them all if the work slips, and a town that may hurt the man doing it.
Stay through the communion. The table at the end includes the dead, which is the film admitting that the farm story is also a grave story. Watch it when you want people to owe each other labor, not speeches. A crop is fought for, a dangerous loyalty is kept, and a place is set for people already gone. That last mercy is specific to this table.
Journal
Keep Places in the Heart in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 80. Yours can differ.
The glance
Temperance is the thin one.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Man for All Seasons
89 instead of 80
A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 80. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.
The eight
- 9Industry
She has to bring in a cotton crop or lose the farm, and that work is the plot.
- 8Household
A widow's farm becomes a household with a blind boarder and a man who knows cotton.
- 8Piety
The communion at the end includes the dead without turning them into a lesson.
- 8Courage
The widow risks the farm, and a Black man stays though he is in danger there.
- 8Republic
A killed sheriff, a town's danger, and a shared crop are the debt of the place.
- 7Temperance
Scarcity runs the story, and nobody is trained to want a softer kind of work.
- 8Truth
The danger to the man who knows cotton is told, not hidden under the harvest.
- 8Stewardship
The crop is fought for, and the final table still sets a place for the dead.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · Places in the Heart · 80IMDb
