Days of Heaven is a 1978 film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in the early twentieth century, it tells a story about transient laborers who travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest crops on a farm, and who become involved with a dying farmer.
According to the theatrical trailer, the story is set in 1916 (the film shows a 1916 newspaper, and a scene late in the film s...
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Days of Heaven is a 1978 film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in the early twentieth century, it tells a story about transient laborers who travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest crops on a farm, and who become involved with a dying farmer.
According to the theatrical trailer, the story is set in 1916 (the film shows a 1916 newspaper, and a scene late in the film shows American soldiers headed off for World War I). Bill (Gere), a Chicago manual laborer, knocks down a boss in the steel mill where he works, killing him, and then flees to the Texas Panhandle with his girlfriend Abby (Adams) and younger sister Linda (Manz). Bill and Abby pretend to be siblings to prevent gossip.
The three hire on as seasonal workers with a rich, shy farmer (Shepard) who, although still young, Bill learns is dying of an unspecified disease. When the farmer falls in love with Abby, Bill encourages her to marry him so that...
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