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Places in the Heart is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Benton released in USA on 11 september 1984 with Sally Field
Places in the Heart (1984)
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Add to a movie listPlaces in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film written and directed by Robert Benton about a U.S. Depression-era Texas widow who tries to save the family farm with the help of a blind white man and a poor black man. It stars Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover, and Terry O'Quinn. It was filmed in Waxahachie, near Dallas, Texas.
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It is the year 1935 and Waxahachie, Texas is a small, segregated town in the midst of a depression. One evening the local sheriff, Royce Spalding, leaves the family dinner table to investigate trouble at the rail yards. He dies after being accidentally shot by a young black boy, Wylie. Local white vigilantes tie Wylie to a truck and drag his body through town, for all the community to see, before hanging him from a tree.Actors
Sally Field
(Edna Spalding)
Lindsay Crouse
(Margaret Lomax)
Danny Glover
(Moze)
John Malkovich
(Mr. Will)
Ed Harris
(Wayne Lomax)
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