<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $9.5 million </Td> </Tr> <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 the year 1935 and Waxahachie, Texas is a small, segregated town in the midst of a depression . One evening the local sheriff, Royce Spalding, leaves the family dinner table 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, for all the community to see, before hanging him from a tree . </P>

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