Film

Days of Heaven 1978

Directed by Terrence Malick

  • Drama, Romance
  • 94 min
  • PG

She gave her hand to one man, but her heart to another.

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

DramaRomancechicago, illinoisfarmhusband wife relationshiplove triangletexasmarriagefieldlovepovertyclass differencesfarmerjealous husband

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Earnest, grave, prestige and contemplative.

  • earnestironic
  • gravecomic
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • contemplativerelentless
  • intimateepic

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