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Places in the Heart (1984). In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.
Found family stories, my beloved. The central story of a widow, a blind man and a Black drifter building some sort of life together as they try to navigate a world with no place for them is genuinely so rich and compelling, especially when the characters are played by Sally Field, John Malkovich and Danny Glover respectively. Unfortunately though, it's bogged down by a heavy-handed and boring subplot about the affair of Edna's brother-in-law that really adds nothing to the story at all. If it had dropped that, I feel like this'd be an 80s classic. 7.5/10.
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Twilight, German Lobby Card. 1998
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Danny Glover-Sally Field "En un lugar del corazón" (Places in the heart) 1984, de Robert Benton.
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Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton, 1979
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Billy Bathgate (1991)
My rating: 6/10
Speaking as someone who does not, as a rule, like gangster movies, I kind of enjoyed this one - possibly because the gangsters in this aren't lionized the way they are in most of them. They're just dudes, mostly pretty shitty ones, and Billy is one of them, and that's about the whole entire story. There isn't a lot of structure to the plot, but it's quite nice in its various vignettes.
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Best Meryl Streep movies and performances:
1. The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino (1978)
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson (2009)
3. Manhattan - Woody Allen (1979)
4. Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton (1979)
5. Little Women - Greta Gerwig (2019)
6. Adaptation - Spike Jonze (2002)
7. The Bridges of Madison County - Clint Eastwood (1995)
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The top two vote-getters will move on to the next round!
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
dir. Robert Benton
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Meryl Streep in “Still of the Night”
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