Days of Heaven (1978)
In 1910, 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. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating at once a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.
Movie Details
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Linda Manz, Sam Shepard, Robert J. Wilke
Producer: Billy Weber, Dianne Crittenden, Ennio Morricone, Néstor Almendros, Haskell Wexler
IMDb Score: 7.6/10 by 496 users
Runtime: 94 minutes
Released: 9/13/1978