Places in the Heart

Name: Places in the Heart
Genre: Drama
Released: 1984-09-11
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 7.2

1984 · Movie · PG · 111 min · ★ 7.2 · 80% critics

Drama

In Depression-era rural Texas, a newly widowed mother fights to keep her farm and care for her two children as money runs out and the bank closes in. With help from a small, unlikely circle, she learns hard lessons about work, community, and prejudice while facing violent local threats and dangerous storms.

Also known as Places of the Heart

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Years: 1984
Release date: 1984-09-11
Language: English
Rated: PG
Runtime: 111 min
Max quality: HD
Critic score: 80/100
TMDB rating: 7.2/10 (193 votes)
Budget: $9,500,000

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You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a heartfelt, hardship-to-hope drama about family, community, and survival under pressure; Not for you if you dislike slow, slice-of-life stories or themes of racism and violence, like in Ragtime.

Pros: moving resilience story; strong performances; vivid period feel | Cons: distracting side plots; sometimes predictable; heavy-handed moments