Places in the Heart

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

In 1935 rural Texas, Edna Spalding (Sally Field) is widowed with two small children, a farm, and almost no money in the bank. A blind boarder, Mr. Will (John Malkovich), and a drifter, Moze (Danny Glover), who first comes to the place to steal, end up teaching her how to plant and pick cotton. Robert Benton keeps the story close to her, a woman who has never run anything now responsible for all of it.