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Days of Heaven

She gave her hand to one man, but her heart to another.

1978 · 1h 34m · PG Drama, Romance
Directed by Terrence Malick

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Overview

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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93%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Visually and thematically, it's still one of the most beautiful films ever made.

David Jenkins, Time Out
Fresh

One of the great cinematic achievements of the 1970s.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Perhaps the most typical example of a '70s American art film -- daring, romantic, rebellious but also filled with longing for the beauty of the past.

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Rotten

Days of Heaven never really makes up its mind what it wants to be.

Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times
Fresh

Almost incontestably the most gorgeously photographed film ever made.

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

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