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Heartland is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Pearce released in USA on 22 september 1979 with Conchata Ferrell
Heartland (1979)
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Add to a movie listHeartland is a 1979 American film, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell. The film is a stark depiction of early homestead life in the American West. It is based on a memoir by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, titled Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914).
Set in southwestern Wyoming, where Stewart homesteaded, the movie was filmed in central Montana.
In 1980 the film was featured as a "Buried Treasure" (a film that received little attention during its initial run) on an episode of the TV show, Sneak Previews, produced and hosted by the film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel.
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En 1910, dans la petite ville de Burnt Fork au Wyoming, arrive par le train une veuve, embauchée comme gouvernante chez un petit éleveur local. Elle est accompagnée de sa fille de 7 ans. Elle ne tarde pas à envisager de s'installer dans une cabane proche de la maison de son employeur mais doit y renoncer à la suite d'un hiver particulièrement rude...Actors
Conchata Ferrell
(Elinore Randall Stewart)
Rip Torn
(Clyde Stewart)
Lilia Skala
(Mrs. Landauer)
Barry Primus
(Jack)
Amy Wright
(Clara Jane)
Jerry Hardin
(Cattlebuyer)
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