Nominations for the ‘Heart’
“Places in the Heart,” which will start at the Westend tomorrow, is another strong contender for this year’s Academy Awards, with seven nominations, including best picture, best director (Robert Benton) and best actress (Sally Field). Field has already won the 1985 Golden Globe Award for her role in this film, and also won an Oscar several years ago for “Norma Rae.”
"Places in the Heart” is a journey to the town of Waxahachie, Texas, where four generations of Benton’s family have lived.
Recalled from Benton’s own childhood, the film serves as a personal tribute to the people of that small town — their courage, strength and love. Set in the 19305, it is the story of Edna Spalding’s (Feild) struggle to keep her family together in spite of. enormous hardships. After her husband, the town sheriff (Ray Baker), is killed, she takes in an itinerant black worker (Danny Glover) and a blind boarder (John Malkovich). The two
of them help her overcome the hardships imposed by the times and the region, and hold her family together.
Winner of Academy Awards for both writing and directing “Kramer vs Kramer,” Benton has sought, through a rich accu-
mulation of detail, to recreate the tone and texture of life in this region during the - 30s, peopling it with memories of his own childhood.
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