Heartland

Heartland is a 1979 film, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell. The movie is a stark depiction of early homestead life in the American West, and is based on a 1914 published reminiscence by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, titled Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Though the story is set in southwestern Wyoming, where Stewart homesteaded, the movie was actually filmed in central Montana. Prominently featured as a "Buried Treasur... more

Heartland is a 1979 film, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell. The movie is a stark depiction of early homestead life in the American West, and is based on a 1914 published reminiscence by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, titled Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Though the story is set in southwestern Wyoming, where Stewart homesteaded, the movie was actually filmed in central Montana. Prominently featured as a "Buried Treasure" (a film which had received little attention during its initial run) on a 1980 episode of Roger Ebert & Gene Siskel's long-running tv show. The film shared the Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival in 1980. less