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Quick Info

Rating

7.5/10

Release1978

Runtime1h 34m

StatusReleased

Budget$3,000,000

Revenue$3,700,000

Production

Paramount Pictures

Movie

Days of Heaven

1978

1h 34m

7.5

Drama

Romance

Synopsis

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.

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