Where the Heart Is (1990 film)
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Where the Heart Is is a 1990 romantic comedy directed by John Boorman, starring Dabney Coleman and Uma Thurman.
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| Directed by | John Boorman |
| Produced by | John Boorman Edgar F. Gross |
| Written by | John Boorman Telsche Boorman |
| Starring | Dabney Coleman, Suzy Amis, Uma Thurman, Crispin Glover, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Plummer, David Hewlett |
| Music by | Peter Martin |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures Silver Screen Partners IV |
| Release date(s) | February 23, 1990 |
| Running time | 107 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | n/a |
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[edit] Plot summary
Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) is a successful self-made demolitions expert who blows up buildings for a living. He determines that his three college-aged children - Daphne (Uma Thurman), Chloe (Suzy Amis), and Jimmy (David Hewlett) - are spoiled and soft so he throws them all out of the family home and gives them the keys to an abandoned property which happens to stand in the way of a major development. The house is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse.
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.
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 Kelly).
Chloe is commissioned to finish a calender for an insurance company. Lionel has to complete his designs for a fashion show. Chloe uses her roommates in the calender and Lionel ends up using some of them to model for his show. 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.
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