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Les saisons du coeur

Original title: Places in the Heart
  • 1984
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  • 1h 51m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Sally Field, Yankton Hatten, and Gennie James in Les saisons du coeur (1984)
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Coming-of-AgePeriod DramaDrama

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.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.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.

  • Director
    • Robert Benton
  • Writer
    • Robert Benton
  • Stars
    • Sally Field
    • Lindsay Crouse
    • Ed Harris
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    15K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Robert Benton
    • Writer
      • Robert Benton
    • Stars
      • Sally Field
      • Lindsay Crouse
      • Ed Harris
    • 81User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars
      • 13 wins & 15 nominations total

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    Places In The Heart: I Was Afraid You Wasn't Going To Make It
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    Sally Field
    Sally Field
    • Edna Spalding
    Lindsay Crouse
    Lindsay Crouse
    • Margaret Lomax
    Ed Harris
    Ed Harris
    • Wayne Lomax
    Amy Madigan
    Amy Madigan
    • Viola Kelsey
    John Malkovich
    John Malkovich
    • Mr. Will
    Danny Glover
    Danny Glover
    • Moze
    Yankton Hatten
    • Frank
    Gennie James
    Gennie James
    • Possum
    Lane Smith
    Lane Smith
    • Albert Denby
    Terry O'Quinn
    Terry O'Quinn
    • Buddy Kelsey
    Bert Remsen
    Bert Remsen
    • Tee Tot Hightower
    Ray Baker
    Ray Baker
    • Royce Spalding
    Jay Patterson
    Jay Patterson
    • W.E. Simmons
    Toni Hudson
    Toni Hudson
    • Ermine
    De'voreaux White
    De'voreaux White
    • Wylie
    • (as DeVoreaux White)
    Jerry Haynes
    Jerry Haynes
    • Deputy Jack Driscoll
    Lou Hancock
    Lou Hancock
    • Dispossessed Lady
    Shelby Brammer
    • Ruby
    • Director
      • Robert Benton
    • Writer
      • Robert Benton
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    User reviews81

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    Bill-308

    A fine movie with a breathtaking final scene

    This is a beautifully told story about life in a small Texas town during the Great Depression. Sally Field's husband dies and it's up to her to raise their children and harvest the cotton crop in time to save the farm. It's a fine story, but at the end, the film springs a surprise. Who'd have thought a movie could have a coda? The last scene of the movie is so powerful that when I left the theater I literally felt like my breath had been taken away. I suspect the scene is unique in the movies, and it affects me every time I see it. I've shown this film on videotape to friends a few times, and I always whisper, "Please don't say anything to me during this last scene." It never fails, though; my friends always begin jabbering away in astonishment right in the middle of the best scene in the movie. It's not a big problem, though. They always shut up in wonder and understanding just before the credits start to roll.
    8roghache

    Memorable Depression era tale of a rural Southern widow

    This was a wonderful film which unfortunately I haven't seen for some years, so forget many of the subtleties. Sally Field is superb in the role of the Depression era Texas widow, Emma Spalding, and deserved her second Oscar which showed that yes, we really do like her. I always love this actress, who is especially compelling in the dramatic Norma Rae and charming in the romantic comedy, Murphy's Romance.

    The film tells the tale of a good, kind, loving, and strong woman, the widow, Emma (who has been left with with two children to raise on her own) and the pair of disparate characters who help her to literally 'save the farm'...the black drifter, Moze, who plants her cotton, and the intriguing blind border, Mr. Will, that she is forced to take on to appease the nasty banker. Because of mortgage difficulties, Emma's farm and in fact, her life are always in the hands of the local bank manager. The unlikely bond between the trio (Emma, Moze, and Mr. Will) and their shared struggle is always the very heart of the film. There are, however, other local small town characters portrayed here, including a sub-plot revolving around a pair of married folk engaged in an adulterous affair.

    It's all so much more meaningful than yet another film about a widow's romance. I don't know that the local couple's affair contributes much to the movie, unless, Hollywood style, there just had to be some sexual implications of some sort or other somewhere. Many others seem to agree that this sub-plot is superfluous.

    The other major roles are well cast, with Danny Glover and John Malkovich sympathetically portraying respectively Moze and Mr. Wills. As for the man involved in the affair, Ed Harris (whom I actually kinda like) always does a brilliant job portraying any sort of somewhat sleazy character!

    Memorable moments...One moving scene has lingered in my mind all these years, when the newly widowed Emma helps prepare the body of her sheriff husband, Royce, for burial. This is of course so alien to us today, when compared with our modern detached funeral parlors. There is an amazing tornado scene, wonderfully photographed, that brilliantly conveys the terror of the characters seeking shelter. Plenty of high drama there! The movie also has anti-racism themes, with a dramatic scenario involving some local Ku Klux Klan members or equivalent, in which Mr. Will plays a pivotal role. And a fabulous, touching scene where Emma dances at a community shindig with her young son, Frank. I recalled it vividly a few years later during a 'first dance' with my own son.

    Certainly not an action flick, but a thoughtful, touching, heartwarming story with very sympathetic characters that will engage you and earn a place in YOUR heart. The movie has a quietly dramatic ending some have questioned, but I personally found it perfect. As another reviewer cleverly noted, it 'seals' the film.
    buck-42

    Deeply moving story.

    I was transfixed by this gem of a movie. All the players were without a doubt most outstanding and very professional. I am always happy to see Danny Glover in any movie. Sally Field was beyond perfect. The love scene in this movie was superflous and not really needed and seemed to me a bit off-center to the plot of the movie itself. The last scene in this movie got me right where I live. My heart constricted at the ending and, I am not ashamed to say, tears fell from my eyes. Right now as I talk about it my eyes tear up. I am happy that Sally Field won an Oscar for her portrayal of a depression-era wife and mother for she earned it ten times over. In the last scene a bible verse was quoted and I would love to know,again, what it was and where it is located in the bible. It had to do with glass and cymbals. Could anyone help out? Thanks.
    10lahabana51

    If you are undergoing personal challenges this is a good film to watch.

    At the time this film was released I was 20 years younger. I liked it but it did not stay in my memory of good movies to watch. I just saw it again today and could not leave my seat. Was it the story? Yes. Was it the acting? Yes. More than anything it was the situations that the characters faced. Art imitating life and doing a very good job of it.

    What I liked most is that I did not think that the performances took away from the story. It's about how your life can change in a split second. Change in a way that challenges you to look at yourself deeply. It's about personal values. It is the type of story that moves me most these days. Stories about humans. It is a stunning film.
    7runamokprods

    Faded a bit from my memories of it's 1st release, but still a strong film

    I was sad to find I didn't love this as much as I had remembered from its release nearly 30 years ago.

    The acting is terrific, and the film looks great. But the main plot has elements of familiar melodramatic clichés that bugged me more now in a way they didn't in 1984. The race to save the farm, and the 'we'll do it despite the odds!' dialogue felt a little too Hollywood this time around, as did the 'perfect' gallery of downtrodden, oppressed outsiders (the single mother, the African-American, the blind man).

    At the same time, the subplot of the romantic triangle between Ed Harris, Lindsay Crouse and Amy Madigan, while wonderfully acted, really seemed to have very little at all to do with the rest of the film.

    That said, all the acting (Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malcovich) is terrific, and the details of time and place are rich and vivid is slightly (intentionally) softened by the haze of the passing years (Benton grew up in the town where the story takes place).

    And that wonderful long last shot, which gives the whole film a larger context, is still a powerful and brave way to end a story.

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    • Trivia
      Although they first met years earlier, actor Ed Harris and actress Amy Madigan got married after working together on this film.
    • Goofs
      The tornado winds upend cars and cause houses to explode, but Moze's hat stays on his head while he drags Frank into the storm cellar.
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      Edna Spalding: [seeing her daughter's doll at the dinner table] Possum, put that up now.

      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.

    • Alternate versions
      NBC edited 2 minutes from this film for its 1987 network television premiere.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: All of Me/Amadeus/Places in the Heart/Until September (1984)
    • Soundtracks
      In The Garden
      Words and Music by Austin Miles

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    • Release date
      • February 20, 1985 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Sony Movie Channel (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • En un lugar del corazón
    • Filming locations
      • Waxahachie, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • Delphi II Productions
      • Tri-Star Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $34,901,614
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $274,279
      • Sep 23, 1984
    • Gross worldwide
      • $34,901,614
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 51 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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