Where the Heart Is (1990 film)

Where the Heart Is (1990 film)

"Where the Heart Is" is a 1990 romantic comedy directed by John Boorman, and starring Dabney Coleman and Uma Thurman.

Infobox_Film
name = Where the Heart Is

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director = John Boorman
producer = John Boorman
Edgar F. Gross
writer = John Boorman
Telsche Boorman
music = Peter Martin
starring = Dabney Coleman, Suzy Amis, Uma Thurman, Crispin Glover, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Plummer, David Hewlett
distributor = Touchstone Pictures
Silver Screen Partners IV
released = February 23, 1990
runtime = 107 min.
language = English
budget = n/a
imdb_id = 0100924
awards = |NSFC--best cinematography|

Plot summary

Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) is a successful self-made demolitions expert who blows up buildings for a living. In the midst of one such project, a group of protesters stops the last building on a lot from being demolished, the Dutch House. When McBain appears on TV to dismiss the protests, he is made to look foolish. Returning home, his three college-aged children - Daphne (Uma Thurman), Chloe (Suzy Amis), and Jimmy (David Hewlett) - ridicule him for even thinking to appear on camera.

Partly due to the chiding, and partly feeling that they are spoiled and soft, he kicks them out of the house. Giving them each $750 he drops them off at the Dutch House to make their own lives. The house is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse. In order to finance their new lives, the three McBain children take on housemates. These include a fashion designer (Crispin Glover) named Lionel; a homeless magician, Shitty (Christopher Plummer); a stockbroker, Tom (Dylan Walsh); and Sheryl, an amateur occultist (Sheila Kelley). Chloe is commissioned to finish a calendar for an insurance company. Lionel has to complete his designs for a fashion show. Chloe uses her roommates in the calendar and Lionel ends up using some of them to model for his show.

The story is told against the backdrop of a stockmarket crash which brings McBain to ruin. He desperately attempts to stave off a hostile takeover of his demolition company and fails. He loses his home and becomes destitute. Ultimately, his children take him in and he starts to see the world in an entirely different light.

Toward the end, the McBain children, their parents, and friends are all evicted from the house. They hit on the idea of blowing up the building in order to stave off the takeover and return everyone to their previous standard of living. Throughout the film there are numerous romantic miscommunications that are tied together at the end.

External links

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