Where the Heart Is (1990 film)

Where the Heart Is
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Directed by	John Boorman
Written by	John Boorman Telsche Boorman
Produced by	John Boorman Edgar F. Gross
Starring	Dabney Coleman Uma Thurman Joanna Cassidy Crispin Glover Suzy Amis Christopher Plummer
Cinematography	Peter Suschitzky
Edited by	Ian Crafford
Music by	Peter Martin
Production company	Touchstone Pictures
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date	February 23, 1990 (1990-02-23)
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.

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