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Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) flees to Texas with his little sister Linda (Linda Manz) and girlfriend Abby (Brooke Adams) after fatally erupting at his boss. Along with other itinerant laborers, they work the harvest at a wealthy, ailing farmer's ranch, but the farmer (playwright Sam Shepard) falls in love with Abby, and, believing her to be Bill's sister, asks the three to stay on at his elysian spread. Seeing it as his one real chance to escape perpetual poverty, Bill urges Abby to marry the sick man. Marriage, however, has more restorative powers, and the farmer has more magnetism, than Bill had planned. "Nobody's perfect," Linda impassively observes in one of her many voiceovers, after their brief paradise is erased by plagues of locusts, fire, and lethal jealousy. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
8/31/78
MPAA Rating
Rated PG
Running Time
94 mins.
Language
- English
Awards
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1978 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1978 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1978 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1978 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1978 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture - Drama award at the 1978 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Score award at the 1978 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Costume Design award at the 1978 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 1978 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Anthony Asquith Award award at the 1979 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1978 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
Distributor
- Paramount Pictures
