Edna and Moze find themselves first in line at the wholesaler with the season's first bale of cotton. Moze helps her find the pickers they need to harvest the cotton on time.
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Edna realizes the prize money plus the proceeds from the sale of her cotton would be enough to save the farm. She learns of an Ellis County contest: a $100 cash prize to the farmer who produces the first bale of cotton for market each season. She says she won't forgive him this time.Įdna realizes she cannot make the next payment even if she sells all her cotton. The tornado is the last straw for Viola, who tells her husband they must move.
Wayne Lomax, Edna's brother-in-law, has a fine time making love to married schoolteacher Viola Kelsey. He rescues her daughter, Possum, during a tornado that levels part of town but leaves the Spalding house standing. Will is slow to warm up to Edna's children, but they eventually become close. Later, he visits the farm and forces her to take his brother-in-law, Will, blinded in World War I, as a paid lodger. He is appalled that she is taking advice from a black man. The next day, Edna tells Denby she will not sell the farm. When the police find Moze with her silver, they bring him back to confirm the theft, Edna says she has hired him and explains the spoons. The local banker, Albert Denby, insists she needs to sell the farm. The bank has a note on the family farm, and the price for cotton is plummeting. The next morning, she finds him chopping wood in her yard. He offers to plant cotton on her 40 acres, citing his experience. A drifter and handyman, a black man named Moses “Moze” Hadner appears at her door the night of the funeral, asking for work. She is comforted by her sister, Margaret, who helps with the funeral. The two men are buried on the same day.Įdna must now raise her children alone. Later, Wylie's friends take his body down from a tree. A truckload of vigilantes drags Wylie's body behind them, stopping in front of the Spalding house. Royce's body is brought home to his widow, Edna, and their children. He reaches an empty chamber and, thinking the gun is empty, he aims at the sheriff, killing him. A cheerfully drunk black teenager, Wylie, is firing a revolver. One Sunday afternoon, the sheriff, Royce Spalding, goes to investigate gun shots at the rail yards. It is 1935 in Waxahachie, Texas, a small town in the grip of the Great Depression. The film received seven nominations at the 57th Academy Awards including for the Best Picture and won two: Best Actress (for Field), and Best Original Screenplay. Reviewers praised Benton's screenplay and direction and performances of the cast (particularly of Field, Malkovich and Crouse), while the film grossed $34.9 million against a $9.5 million budget. It was theatrically released on September 21, 1984, by Tri-Star Pictures to critical and commercial success. Places in the Heart premiered at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Bear, while Benton won the Silver Bear for Best Director.
The film's narrative follows Edna Spalding, a young woman during the Great Depression in Texas who is forced to take charge of her farm after the death of her husband and is helped by a motley bunch. It stars Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Ray Baker, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover, Jerry Haynes and Terry O'Quinn. Places in the Heart is a 1984 American film written and directed by Robert Benton.
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