Where the Heart Is

Part of that weird 80s and 90s subgenre of rich people having to interact with the homeless, John Boorman’s Where the Heart Is is actually one of the more successful efforts, in the lines of Mel Brooks‘ Life Stinks. It’s more clear-eyed and realistic in its portrayal of the issue while having something to say that is beyond bromides about how the mentally ill homeless are more in touch with the human experience than stodgy well-off people. That did seem like something Boorman could have fall...