

Days of Heaven
She gave her hand to one man, but her heart to another.
In 1916, 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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $3.7M
- Language
- English
- chicago, illinois
- farm
- husband wife relationship
- love triangle
- texas
- marriage
- field
- love
- poverty
- class differences
- farmer
- jealous husband
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PGNew York City, New York13 Sept 1978
- Theatrical (limited)PGLos Angeles, California20 Sept 1978
- TheatricalPG6 Oct 1978
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical(Rated A)31 May 1979
- PhysicalPG8 Jun 1987
- PhysicalPG23 Apr 2001
- TheatricalPG1 Aug 2011
- TheatricalPG4 Apr 2013
CzechiaCZ
- Physical23 Nov 2001
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival15 May 1979
- TheatricalU16 May 1979
- TVFrance Culture18 Jun 1984
- PhysicalUDVD5 Jul 2001
- Digital / OTTVOD1 Nov 2018
- TheatricalUReprise17 Jul 2019
- PhysicalUBlu-Ray26 May 2021
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1225 May 1979
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1213 May 1982
JapanJP
- Theatrical13 May 1983
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1631 May 1979
- Physical16DVD17 Jul 2001
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Days of Heaven was released on 13 September 1978.
Audience reviews
3- M9/10
MoHA
3/15/2015
Following the story of Bill (Richard Gere), a hard working laborer in the early 19th century, Days Of Heaven is a cinematic masterpiece. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Abby (Brooke Adams) and sister (Linda Manz), Bill departs on a steam engine for a lone wheat farm in Texas for work. The journey is a long one, but director Terrence Malick makes the ride pleasant with beautiful shots of nature at its best. The rest o…
- T9/10
talisencrw
7/5/2016
Outstanding. My second favourite Malick film next to Badlands. I'm not sure anyone has ever been better at photographing fire. The only other of his films I have seen thus far is 'To the Wonder', but it's films like this that make me such a lover of cinema. I'm not a Richard Gere fan in the slightest (though I have always loved Brooke Adams), but it's roles like this that cement his reputation as a cinematic icon in …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/18/2023
I wasn't ever really a fan of Richard Gere. Maybe it was just all that hair? Anyway, in this rather poignant story he is "Bill" who works in a smelter in Chicago whilst living with "Amy" (Brooke Adams) and his younger sister "Linda" (Linda Manz). He's not happy, and after the latest in a series of lively squabbles with his foreman, the three decide to quit the city and head to Texas where they find casual work on far…
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