<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $34,901,614 </Td> </Tr> <P> Places in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film written and directed by Robert Benton about a U.S. Depression - era Texas widow who tries to save the family farm with the help of a blind white man and a poor black man . The film stars Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Ray Baker, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover, Jerry Haynes and Terry O'Quinn . It was filmed in Waxahachie, Texas . Field won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance . </P> <P> It is 1935 and Waxahachie, Texas is a small, segregated town in the midst of a depression . One afternoon the local sheriff, Royce Spalding, goes to investigate trouble at the rail yards . He dies after being accidentally shot by a young black boy, Wylie . Local white vigilantes tie Wylie to a truck and drag his body through town before hanging him from a tree . </P> <P> The sheriff's widow, Edna Spalding, is left to raise her children alone and maintain the family farm . The bank has a note on the farm and money is scarce; the price for cotton is plummeting and many farms are going under . The local banker, Mr. Denby, pays her a visit . He pressures her to sell the farm as he doesn't see how she can afford to make the loan payments . </P>

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