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Released
1984 · FILM

Places in the Heart

Widowed farmer Edna Spaulding fights to keep her Texas homestead and protect her children against a crushing debt, a looming tornado, and the menace of the Ku Klux Klan, with unexpected help from a blind boarder and a black laborer.

“The story of a woman fighting for her children, for her land, for the greatest dream there is... the future.”

Directed by
Robert Benton
Written by
Robert Benton
Runtime
111 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Tubi

Synopsis

In 1935 rural Texas, Edna Spaulding, a recently widowed woman, faces the challenge of raising two young children, managing a farm, and coping with financial hardship. She must also contend with the threat of a deadly tornado and the presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna receives support from her sister, Margaret, a beautician; Mr. Will, a blind boarder; and Moze, a would-be thief who teaches her how to plant and harvest cotton.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Carol LittletonShot by Nestor AlmendrosScored by John KanderDesigned by Gene Callahan

Box Office

1984 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$34.9M

Budget$9.5M
Worldwide gross$34.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $274K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $407K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 14 theaters

Also known as

  • Ein Platz im Herzende
  • En un lugar del corazónes
  • Les Saisons du cœurfr
  • Le stagioni del cuoreit

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