Days of Heaven (1978)
Parental guidance recommended
| Director: | Terrence Malick |
| Actors: | Richard Gere, Sam Shepard, Brooke Adams, Linda Manz |
Bill and Abby's move to Chicago was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to change their lives and make them happy. So how did it become so complicated ? Directed by Terence Malick (The Thin Red Line, Badlands), this Oscar winning period drama stars Ricahrd Gere as Bill. His love, Abby, is played by Brooke Adams and Sam Shepherd stars as the kindly farmer who takes the young couple uder his wing. Bill and Abbya attempt to reverse their fortunes by moving south, away from the poverty of Chicago. With the world believing that they are brother and sister, the couple find employment on a farm in the Panhandle, Texas. When the harvest is over, the young, rich and handsome farmer invites them to stay because he has fallen in love with Abby. Knowing that he only has a year to live, she reluctantly accepts a wedding proposal from him, hoping to profit from it. When the expected death fails to come, jealousy sets in and Abby becomes impatient for her freedom. But what lengths is she prepared to go to?
| Status: | HighDemand |
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| Run time: | 90mins |
| Origin: | UNITED STATES |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.85:1 16:9 Enhanced |
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Member Reviews (13)
13 Member
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Cs
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Beautiful scenes - a bit slow
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Great cinematography, average storyline, the sparse script would occupy very few pages, a young gere trying out his bedroom eyes, an inadequate ending to a dreary plot. Agree with gaz ; these films should be doctored to remove the scenes showing kids puffing away. Times have changed.
gaz
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Pushing kids to smoke is the main theme. This film was made by lowlife.
Art S.
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Pictorially amazing and with the most amazing editing, featuring a lot of cuts to shots of movement and then layers of movement within shots (how do I describe this -- must be seen!). The story is somewhat incidental to the full experience of beauty here (laborer Gere cooks up a plan that involves his girlfriend marrying rich farmer Sam Shepard who is supposedly dying). Using Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler must have helped to give Malick the kino eye here.
Robyn P.
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No Country for Jealous Men
Vanessa R.
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Not to be missed if you're a Mallick fan!
Margaret M.
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Teneille L.
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filmasart
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A beautiful visual film experience. An almost poetic journey of relationships, love, poverty and power.
Robyne Tompsett
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Absolute waste of time unless you like to drool over Richard gere. Not his best though.
Linda Sherlock
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Sunil Roychoudhry
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Craig Freedman
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Amazing cinematography even when viewed on the small screen. This is a film unlike others.