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Desert Hearts is a american film of genre Drama directed by Donna Deitch released in USA on 7 march 1986 with Helen Shaver

Desert Hearts (1986)

Desert Hearts
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Released in USA 7 march 1986
Length 1h36
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating70% 3.54783.54783.54783.54783.5478

Desert Hearts is a 1985 lesbian-themed romantic drama film loosely based on the Jane Rule novel Desert of the Heart. Directed by Donna Deitch, the film stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau with a supporting performance by Audra Lindley.

Synopsis

Set in 1959, Vivian Bell (Shaver), a 35-year-old English professor at Columbia University in New York City, travels to the Reno, Nevada area to establish residency in Nevada (a process that takes six weeks), in order to obtain a quickie divorce (which Nevada was especially well known for in the 1950s/60s/70s). She stays at a guest house ranch for women who are waiting for their divorces to be finalized. The guest ranch is owned by Frances Parker (Lindley).

Actors

Helen Shaver

(Vivian Bell)Patricia Charbonneau

(Cay Rivvers)Audra Lindley

(Frances Parker)Denise Crosby

(Pat)Dean Butler

(Darrell)
And :
Gwen Welles
Alex McArthur
Jeffrey Tambor
Antony Ponzini
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