Synopsis
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
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Cast
- Richard GereBill
- Brooke AdamsAbby
- Sam ShepardThe Farmer
- Linda ManzLinda
- Robert J. WilkeThe Farm Foreman
- Jackie ShultisLinda's Friend
- Stuart MargolinMill Foreman
- Timothy ScottHarvest Hand
- Gene BellDancer
- Doug KershawFiddler
Recommendations
- 100
Austin Chronicle
Some movies are like Dorothy's twister; they just pick you up and whisk you away from the commonplace world you know to a world wondrous and astonishing. Days of Heaven is such a movie. [27 July 1998] - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Above all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick's purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss. His tone is elegiac. He evokes the loneliness and beauty of the limitless Texas prairie. [7 Dec. 1997] - 100
TV Guide Magazine
Director Malick endows this simple, timeless story with the enormous scope and resonance of myth through a clear vision unclouded by sentimentality and by a deft juxtaposition of image, music, and character. - 100
Variety
A dramatically moving and technically breathtaking American art film, one of the great cinematic achievements of the 1970s. - 100
Village Voice
It seems almost incontestably...the most gorgeously photographed film ever made. [23 March 1999] - 100
Chicago Tribune
Days of Heaven is the grand climax of the whole "Bonnie and Clyde"-"Badlands" tradition of outlaw-lovers-on-the-run movies. Shot by Nestor Almendros and the uncredited Haskell Wexler, it's a cinematographic masterpiece. [20 March 1998] - 100
Chicago Reader
The result is a film that hovers just beyond our grasp--mysterious, beautiful, and, very possibly, a masterpiece. - 100
The Guardian
The film, with its transcendentally beautiful visuals...is a rich and rewarding experience. [1 Sept. 2011]
