Days of heaven [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / [presented by] Paramount Pictures ; produced by Bert and Harold Schneider ; written and directed by Terrence Malick.
Format:
[videorecording (Blu-ray)] /
Edition:
Blu-ray ed. ; [Special ed.].
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
1 Blu-ray Disc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.)
Richard Gere (Bill), Brooke Adams (Abby), Sam Shepard (the farmer), Linda Manz (Linda), Robert Wilke (the farm foreman). Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1978. Special features: Commentary with Jack Fisk, Billy Weber, Patricia Norris, and Dianne Crittenden [audio feature]; Interview with Richard Gere [audio feature]; Interview with Sam Shepard; Interview with John Bailey; Interview with Haskell Wexler. Booklet includes essays "On Earth as it is in heaven" by Adrian Martin and "Shooting 'Days of Heaven'" by Nestor Almendros. Special features not rated.
Contents:
Going places -- Work -- Harvest -- Abby -- Prognosis -- Job ends -- Tired -- Staying on -- Future -- Marriage -- Rich -- Out for a walk -- "I don't know you" -- Flying circus -- Business -- Return -- Locusts -- "Nobody's perfect" -- Hunted -- New beginnings -- Color bars.
Summary:
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the farmer to die, so Abby can inherit. But love seems to be a cure-all: the farmer seems to be improving. And Abby is no longer seeing this as a marriage of convenience.
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