Days of Heaven
“She gave her hand to one man, but her heart to another.”
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
Genres
Drama, Romance
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Days of Heaven performed
Budget
$3.0M
Worldwide Gross
$3.7M
Gross Profit
$700,000
Return
1.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$533K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Bill
Richard Gere
Bill
Abby
Brooke Adams
Abby
The Farmer
Sam Shepard
The Farmer
Linda
Linda Manz
Linda
The Farm Foreman
Robert J. Wilke
The Farm Foreman
Linda's Friend
Jackie Shultis
Linda's Friend
Mill Foreman
Stuart Margolin
Mill Foreman
Harvest Hand
Timothy Scott
Harvest Hand
Dancer
Gene Bell
Dancer
Fiddler
Doug Kershaw
Fiddler
Vaudeville Leader
Richard Libertini
Vaudeville Leader
Vaudeville Wrestler
Frenchie Lemond
Vaudeville Wrestler
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