Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart (1984), however, was more comfortable territory for Benton. The drama was set in his hometown of Waxahachie, Texas, during the Great Depression, and it featured Sally Field as a widow who must provide for her children by working her 40-acre cotton…

…Oscar for the Depression-era drama Places in the Heart (1984), in which she played a mother struggling to keep her farming family intact. During her acceptance speech, Field exclaimed, “You like me, you really like me,” a phrase that quickly entered the canon of familiar pop-culture quotations. She played another…

…he notably played heroes in Places in the Heart (1984) and Silverado (1985). He showed his versatility by taking on more villainous roles in Witness (1985), a crime drama starring Harrison Ford, and The Color Purple (1985). In the latter film his performance as the abusive husband of the main…

…blind boarder in Robert Benton’s Places in the Heart. His performance earned him the first Academy Award nomination of his career. He became a prominent name in Hollywood for his performance in Stephen Frears’s 1988 costume drama Dangerous Liaisons, in which he plays the conspiring bachelor Vicomte de Valmont alongside…