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Places in the Heart
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Places in the Heart is a 1984 film written and directed by Robert Benton.1935, Waxahatchie, Texas, America deep in the grip of The Great Depression. Royce Spalding, the town sheriff, goes out to deal with an intoxicated black teenager who is taking random potshots with a revolver down by the railroad tracks. The boy, Wylie, accidentally shoots Royce in the chest, and he dies. Wylie is promptly lynched by the white men of the town.Royce's wife Edna (Sally Field) is left a widow with two young children. Edna has spent her whole life homemaking and has no earthly idea about how to handle money—she doesn't even know how much her husband made. She's unpleasantly surprised to find out that their farm is heavily mortgaged, and if she can't come up with the payment for the bank by October, she and her children will be homeless.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Enter Moses (Danny Glover) a homeless, hungry laborer. Moses offers to do chores around the Spalding farm for nothing more than room and board. When he finds out about Edna's dilemma he suggests she plant cotton, a lucrative cash crop, in order to raise the money to keep the farm. Edna supplements her income by taking in as a boarder a blind man, Mr. Will (John Malkovich). However, the falling price of cotton puts Edna's home and the survival of her family in greater danger.A parallel plot follows Edna's sister Margaret (Lindsay Crouse), married to Wayne Lomax (Ed Harris). Wayne is having an affair with the town schoolteacher, Viola Kelsey (Amy Madigan). Viola's husband Buddy is played by Terry O'Quinn.Sally Field's acceptance of her second Best Actress Oscar for her role in this film led to one of the most Narm-tastic moments in Academy Award history. An emotional Field said to the audience, "I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"—often misquoted as "you like me, you really like me!"Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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Plot-Triggering Death: Royce's random, senseless death starts the story, as Edna has to battle to keep her home and farm. | |
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Down on the Farm | |
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Down on the Farm: Edna has to do some fast thinking to save their farm, which is no easy task in 1935 when farms are being foreclosed everywhere due to the Depression. | |
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"Shut Up!" Gunshot: Mr. Will does this to get the attention of the Klansmen who are beating on Moses. | |
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Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Averted. No funnel cloud is ever seen, and the damage to the town from the tornado is catastrophic. | |
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Book-Ends: The same church hymn being sung ("This Is My Story") in the first scene and the last. | |
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Gainax Ending: The final scene takes place in a church service. At first it seems like a normal service, grounded in realism like the rest of the film, with Edna and her family and only a couple of others in the congregation. But as communion is passed around, nearly every character previously seen in the film—friend and foe, good and bad, living and dead, in fact everyone except for Buddy and Viola—is seen taking part in the communion. The final shot is completely startling and unexpected, but it forces the viewer to rethink everything we've seen before, and the way it suggests grace and reconciliation qualifies as a genuine tear jerker. | |
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Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub | |
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Awkwardly Placed Bathtub: Well, it's a home in rural Texas in 1935, so it doesn't have a lot of amenities, which is why Edna has to take a bath in an aluminum bathtub in the middle of the kitchen. Leads to a comic moment when Mr. Will, who after all is blind, comes barging into the kitchen to complain about the kids scratching his records. He doesn't realize that he has intruded on Edna's private moment until, while waving his arms in anger, he accidentally dunks his hand into her bathtub. | |
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Determined Widow | |
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Determined Widow: Edna has to do some growing up very, very fast after her husband is killed. She ignores the man from the bank who wants her to give up and sell the house; she ignores Moses when he tells her that there's no way they'll be able to pick the cotton in time to win the $100 prize. Edna will not lose the house. | |
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Housewife: Edna at the beginning is the Platonic ideal of a 1930s housewife—concerned with homemaking and child rearing, and otherwise so unskilled that she has no idea how much money the family has and doesn't even know how to write a check. She has a steep learning curve after Royce is killed. | |
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"Everyone Comes Back" Fantasy Party Ending | |
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"Everyone Comes Back" Fantasy Party Ending: The final scene seems at first to be a simple church service. It is revealed to be something more symbolic when first Moses is shown (he was chased out of town by the KKK in the previous scene), and then everyone who has died in the movie—Royce, Wylie, and the old lady who was killed by the tornado—also are are shown in the congregation along with Edna and the rest. | |
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But Now I Must Go | |
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But Now I Must Go: Not by choice, though. After the KKK goons beat up Moses (and would have killed him if Mr. Will hadn't intervened), he realizes he has to leave, and bids a sad farewell to Edna. | |
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