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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations Movie Release: 1978 DVD Release: 03/30/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Drama, Romantic Drama, Period Film, Rural Drama See Also: Days of Heaven [Criterion Collection]

Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) flees to Texas with his little sister Linda (Linda Manz) and girlfriend Abby (Brooke Adams) after fatally erupting at his boss. Along with other itinerant laborers, they work the harvest at a wealthy, ailing farmer's ranch, but the farmer (playwright Sam Shepard) falls in love with Abby, and, believing her to be Bill's sister, asks the three to stay on at his elysian spread. Seeing it as his one real chance to escape perpetual poverty, Bill urges Abby to marry the sick man. Marriage, however, has more restorative powers, and the farmer has more magnetism, than Bill had planned. "Nobody's perfect," Linda impassively observes in one of her many voiceovers, after their brief paradise is erased by plagues of locusts, fire, and lethal jealousy. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Richard Gere - Bill
Brooke Adams - Abby
Sam Shepard - The Farmer
Linda Manz - Linda
Robert J. Wilke - Farm Foreman

A lush visual feast for the eyes and a moving tale of tragedy and love, Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, and Sam Shepard star in Terrence Malick's moving tale of desperation, arriving on DVD from Paramount home video. Preserving the Oscar-winning cinematography by presenting the film in its original 1.85:1 theatrical widescreen version, and featuring a variety of audio options including closed-captioned English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Surround soundtracks, this release also offers an alternate French Dolby Digital Mono track. The sole extra feature is a theatrical trailer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide