Where the Heart Is
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Actor: Crispin Glover, Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Suzy Amis, Uma ThurmanBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Where the Heart Is
Movie Review: Classically structured comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
Family with everything loses everything, discover themselves and their own talents. Everyone falls in love with the right person and there is a party at the end.
I saw this film at Mann's Chinese in Hollywood during it's brief original run and told everyone I knew to see it (none did). I was and am surprised that no attempt was made to market the artwork created for the film.
It is a heart warming story about a successful man being pushed about by his children, so he moves them out hoping they'll grow up (they're all adults living at home). His business has gone south as one architecturally insignificant house is declared a landmark and so it cannot be demolished and holds up a high rise project into which he has sinks all his assets, and of course the bank calls them in. So, this wealthy man finds himself broke and broken and he turns to his children for shelter. They in turn discover self reliance.
The art work for this film is stunning and unfortunately for you it's no longer available on the big screen; however, on the small screen it is still stunning. When the film came out, the best video was on Laser Disk (remember those?) and despite not having a player I bought it in that format. I eventually had a friend transfer it to DVD.
This IS a classic comedy, the characters are well defined (although there is one character with few lines, yet is very present and turns out to be the sons love of loves (I think some of her scenes may have been cut)(inexplicably). It is deftly executed, well written and structured. It is one of my favorite movies.
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