Days of Heaven (1978)

US:: PG Drama Romance

In 1910, 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. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating at once a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.

Updated May 10 2020

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1978-09-12

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Keywords:

love triangle chicago husband wife relationship texas field farm marriage love poverty class differences farmer jealous husband boyfriend girlfriend relationship harvest

FACTS

Runtime: 94 mins Rating: 7.6 Tag Line: Your eyes... Your ears... Your senses... will be overwhelmed.

Cast

Richard Gere

Bill

Robert J. Wilke

The Farm Foreman

Linda Manz

Linda

Sam Shepard

The farmer

Stuart Margolin

Mill Foreman

Brooke Adams

Abbey

Crew

Billy Weber

Editor

Dianne Crittenden

Casting

Ennio Morricone

Original Music Composer

Néstor Almendros

Director of Photography

Jack Fisk

Art Direction

Patricia Norris

Costume Design

Robert Gould

Set Decoration

Haskell Wexler

Additional Photography