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Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic period drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in 1916, it tells the story of Bill and Abby, lovers who travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest crops for a wealthy farmer.
Oct 6, 1978 · Days of Heaven: Directed by Terrence Malick. With Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz. A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
Mar 12, 2024. Dec 3, 2023. Rated: 3/4 • Oct 4, 2023. A screen poem about life in America at the turn of the century. A story of love and murder told through the voice of a child and expressive...
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Roger Ebert December 07, 1997. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven'' has been praised for its painterly images and evocative score, but criticized for its muted emotions: Although passions erupt in a deadly love triangle, all the feelings are somehow held at arm's length.
Days of Heaven. In the Texas panhandle wheat fields on the eve of World War I, a woman is torn between two men, one her fellow field worker, the other a rich land owner. Oscar-winning classic by director Terence Malick. 787 IMDb 7.7 1 h 33 min 1978. X-Ray PG. Drama · Romance · Beautiful · Cerebral. Free trial of Paramount+, rent, or buy.
Synopsis. Bill ( Richard Gere ), his girlfriend Abby ( Brooke Adams) and his young teen sister Linda ( Linda Manz) are forced to flee Chicago when Bill accidentally kills the foreman ( Stuart Margolin) at the steel mill at which he works. They hop a train and eventually arrive at a wheat farm in the Texas panhandle.
In the mid-1910s, a Chicago steelworker (Richard Gere) accidentally kills his supervisor, and flees with his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his little sister (Linda Manz) to the Texas panhandle, where they find work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer (Sam Shepard).
