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Where the Heart Is

1990

John Boorman

Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover ...

5.3

156

Comedy. Drama Stewart McBain (Coleman) is a real-estate mogul who spends his living blowing up old buildings to make room to erect new buildings. All goes as planned for a new subdivision, until a group of protesters object to the destruction of one lonely, ugly building, called the Dutch House. Typically, the media is sent to the scene of the protest, and McBain appears on TV in a bad way. His children - Daphne (Thurman), Chloe (Amis), and Jimmy ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] has an undeniable grandeur and nobility even in the midst of its broadest lapses of sense, taste and style. It is indeed a majestic dud."	NEU
United Kingdom	Rob Beattie Empire	"A mediocre offering which seems to try to parody itself (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"By failing to create a convincing reality for their city neighborhood, the filmmakers reveal it for what it is, a set (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"Most of the dialogue in 'Heart' seems to have no heart at all. Around it, Boorman’s world (...) flames up with a soul all it own."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The film plays like the pilot for a moronic TV sitcom"	NEG

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