Places in the Heart
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Places in the Heart

Year:
Duration:
111 min
Genres:
Drama
IMDB rate:
7.4
Director:
Robert Benton
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 11 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1984-10-05
Filming Locations: Ellis County, Texas, USA
Earnings
Gross: $34,700,000 (USA) Copyright Holder Copyright © 1984 TRI-STAR PICTURES Related Links
Cast
Actor
Character
Amy Madigan
Amy Madigan
Places in the Heart
Yankton Hatten
Yankton Hatten
Places in the Heart
Sally Field
Edna Spalding
Lindsay Crouse
Margaret Lomax
Ed Harris
Wayne Lomax
John Malkovich
Mr. Will
Danny Glover
Moze
Gennie James
Possum Spalding
Lane Smith
Albert Denby
Terry O'Quinn
Buddy Kelsey
Bert Remsen
Tee Tot Hightower
Ray Baker
Sheriff Royce Spalding
Jay Patterson
W.E. Simmons
Toni Hudson
Ermine
De'voreaux White
Wylie
Jerry Haynes
Deputy Jack Driscoll
Lou Hancock
Dispossessed Lady Living in Car
Shelby Brammer
Ruby
Norma Young
Beauty Shop Customer
Bill Thurman
Homer
Jim Gough
Leroy
Cliff Bruner
Otis
Arthur Pugh
Dove Haslip
Matthew Posey
Eugene
Shanna Shrum
Rosalie Lomax
Gregg Brazzel
KKK Man #1 (as Greg Brazzell)
Lynn Covey
KKK Man #2
Randy Fife
KKK Man #3
Vernon Grote
KKK Man #4
Ned Dowd
KKK Man #5
Paul Nuckles
KKK Man #6
Lynn D. Lasswell Jr.
Preacher
J.C. Quinn
Texas Voice #1 (voice)
Robert Schenkkan
Texas Voice #2 (voice)
Trey Wilson
Texas Voice #3 (voice)
Bascom Newman
Farmhouse Dance Voice (voice)
Paul Goodwin
Mr. Cheeves
Connie Grandell
Mrs. Cheeves
William J. Welch
Narrator, 'Trent's Last Case'
Did you know?
Trivia
Although they first met years earlier, actors Ed Harris and Amy Madigan got married after working together on this film.
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The director and screenwriter, Robert Benton, set the film in his birthplace of Waxahachie, Texas in 1935, three years after he was born there.
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Gennie James was cast as Possum after the initially cast little girl couldn't stop crying when the cameras were rolling. The two girls were actually friends in their hometown of Navasota, Texas.
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Goofs
A scene in the kitchen shows iron skillets and other cookware. It's all gray. Only new iron cookware is gray. After it's been used, if only for a month or two, it turns black.
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When the sheriff is seen in the rail yard, the highway bridge in the background is constructed with precast concrete beams that had not been invented until many decades after the 1935 setting of this film.
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Frank's top button after stopping to look at the homeless woman during the storm.
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Quotes
Preacher: On the night before His crucifixion, Our Lord gathered with His disciples. He broke the bread, and blessed it, saying: "Take, eat; this is my body." And he took the cup and said: "Drink; this is my blood, which I shed for thee."
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Edna Spalding: [Moze caught with her silver in hand] You ever try and steal anything from me again, I'll shoot you myself, You understand that?
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Possum Spalding: Right on my biscuit!
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Photos from cast
Amy Madigan Yankton Hatten
mullenix ridge elementary school Cartoon of an eagle eagle pointing cartoon eagle clipart transparent background