Where the Heart Is movie storyline. Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) is a successful self-made demolitions expert who blows up buildings for a living. In the midst of one such project, a group of protesters stops the last building on a lot, the Dutch House, from being demolished. When McBain appears on TV to dismiss the protests, he is made to look foolish. Returning home, his three college-aged children – Daphne (Uma Thurman), Chloe (Suzy Amis), and Jimmy (David Hewlett) – ridicule him for appearing on camera.
Feeling his children are spoiled and soft, McBain kicks them out of the house. Giving them each $750, he drops them off at the Dutch House to live. The house is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse. In order to finance their new lives, the children take on housemates. These include a fashion designer (Crispin Glover) named Lionel; a homeless magician, Shitty (Christopher Plummer); a stockbroker, Tom (Dylan Walsh); and Sheryl, an amateur occultist (Sheila Kelley). Chloe is commissioned to finish a calendar for an insurance company. Lionel has to complete his designs for a fashion show. Chloe uses her roommates in the calendar and Lionel ends up using some of them to model for his show.
The story is told against the backdrop of a stockmarket crash which brings McBain to ruin. He desperately attempts to stave off a hostile takeover of his demolition company and fails. He loses his home and becomes destitute. Ultimately, his children take him in and he starts to see the world in an entirely different light.
Where the Heart Is is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by John Boorman, and starring Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis, Christopher Plummer, David Hewlett, Dylan Walsh, Sheila Kelley and Dennis Strong.
Where the Heart Is (1990)
Directed by: John Boorman
Starring: Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis, Christopher Plummer, David Hewlett, Dylan Walsh, Sheila Kelley, Dennis Strong
Screenplay by: John Boorman, Telsche Boorman
Production Design by: Carol Spier
Cinematography by: Peter Suschitzky
Film Editing by: Ian Crafford
Costume Design by: Linda Matheson
Set Decoration by: Elinor Rose Galbraith
Art Direction by: James McAteer
Music by: Peter Martin
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: February 23, 1990
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