Where the Heart Is (1990 film)
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Directed by | John Boorman |
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Cinematography | Peter Suschitzky |
Edited by | Ian Crafford |
Music by | Peter Martin |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $15 million[1] |
Box office | $1,106,475[2] |
Where the Heart Is is a 1990 American romantic comedy film co-written and directed by John Boorman and starring Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis, and Christopher Plummer.
Plot[]
Stewart McBain is a successful self-made demolitions expert who blows up buildings for a living. In the midst of one such project, a group of protesters stops the last building on a lot, the Dutch House, from being demolished. When McBain appears on TV to dismiss the protests, he is made to look foolish. Returning home, his three college-aged children–Daphne, Chloe, and Jimmy–ridicule him for his television appearance.
Feeling his children are spoiled, McBain kicks them out of the house. Giving them each $750, he drops them off at the Dutch House, which is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse. In order to finance their new lives, the children take on housemates. These include a fashion designer named Lionel; a homeless magician, Shitty; a stockbroker, Tom; and Sheryl, an amateur occultist. Chloe is commissioned to finish a calendar for an insurance company. Lionel has to complete his designs for a fashion show. Chloe uses her roommates in the calendar and Lionel ends up using some of them to model for his show.
A stockmarket crash brings McBain to ruin. He desperately attempts to stave off a hostile takeover of his demolition company and fails. He loses his home and becomes destitute. Ultimately, his children take him in and he starts to see the world in a new light.
Cast[]
- Dabney Coleman as Stewart McBain
- Joanna Cassidy as Jean McBain
- Suzy Amis as Chloe McBain
- Uma Thurman as Daphne McBain
- David Hewlett as Jimmy McBain
- Crispin Glover as Lionel
- Christopher Plummer as "Shitty"
- Maury Chaykin as Harry
- Dylan Walsh as Tom
- Sheila Kelley as Sheryl
- Ken Pogue as Hamilton
References[]
- ^ "AFI-Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
- ^ Where the Heart Is at Box Office Mojo
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