Director - Terrence Malick
Writer - Terrence Malick
Richard Gere ... Bill
Brooke Adams ... Abby
Sam Shepard ... The Farmer
Linda Manz ... Linda
Contains spoilers
Days of Heaven opens to a mess of debris and Bill working in a factory. Some guy gives him the stink eye and they fight. Bill tells Abby things aren't always going to be this way. The three including Linda migrate. They tell people they are brother and sister (Bill and Abby). They travel by train. Bill gets a job as a sacker making three dollars a day. The owner (Sam Shepard) owns a big house Abby asks about. The three play in the fields after work
They work the fields cutting wheat. The farmer (Sam Shepard) notices Sam Shepard and likes her. A guy asks Bill if his sister keeps him warm at night and they fight. The Farmer asks people about Abby - where she's from, what her name is. Bill and Abby get in trouble for messing up three bushels and get docked three dollars. Bill steals some medicine. The Farmer is told he has 1 year to live. Abby tells The Farmer she is from Chicago. They talk. Abby and Bill work from sunup to sundown. They can always get somebody else to work. The Farmer's accountant tells him good news of record profits.
The Farmer gives Abby a business proposition to stay and work. Bill says he's stuck on her. Bill tells her she should stay. Linda comforts a girl who lost her boyfriend. The people relax the best way they can. After work they play instruments, dance by the bonfire and have a good time. Abby dances with the Farmer which upsets Bill. Abby tells Linda she loves her and then boards a train. An old man asks what Linda did in Chicago - she tells him she worked in a factory.
Bill and the Farmer talk. He tells The Farmer he thought one day he would have a big score. The Farmer tells Abby he thinks he loves her. Bill tells Abby he didn't think he had the guts to tell Abby that. Abby and the Farmer get married. He tells her she's like an angel. Abby begins to like the comfort and perks of being married to a wealthy man. They didn't have to work now. They play in the fields and have casual days.
Bill and Abby go outside after he wakes up. They drink. Bill says he never wanted to fall in love with her. They don't receive letters or cards. The old accountant tells the Farmer he thinks Bill and Abby are a bunch of con artists. The Farmer gets upset. The old man confronts Bill and lets him know he knows what he's doing. The Farmer tells Abby he has come back to life thanks to her. Abby is distant - unsurprisingly. The Amarillo Dispatch newspaper says, "President Wilson Visits Panhandle." The Farmer didn't get better or worse - health wise. Bill and The Farmer go hunting. Two airplanes fly by and land near their home. They are a flying circus. They perform for The Farmer and Abby and they watch a Charlie Chaplin film. The Farmer sees Abby and Bill kissing outside. He confronts her about it. He says he doesn't know how brothers and sisters act where they are from. Bill leaves by one of the performer's planes. Bill tells her she loves the Farmer.
The Farmer teaches Linda about keys on the piano and about geography. Abby and The Farmer enjoy their honeymoon phase. Bill returns and everyone greets him. Abby apologizes to Bill probably for falling in love with The Farmer. Bill apologizes for pushing her into this - their scheme to get the The Farmer's money. The Farmer watches them kiss from afar. Locusts are in the house and are eating the wheat. A red flag is raised and the Farmer tells them to swat and smoke them out. They have to get locusts one by one by hand and they throw them in the fire. A wagon and the field catches on fire after The Farmer breaks his lantern on them. He says, "Let them burn!" Abby tells Bill he knows. The Farmer pulls a gun and asks what does she want from him. He ties her up and calls her a liar.
The Farmer comes to Bill with his gun and Bill stabs him. Bill runs away.The Farmer lays dying and the accountant finds him. Bill and Abby run away and sell jewelry to a man for a boat. Abby vows to live a good life now. That was the first time Linda was on a boat. The accountant shows a picture and asks people where are Bill and Linda. Abby and Bill live in the woods. The police go after Bill when they spot him near the water. He runs for it. The police finally find him and kill him. Abby cries by his side.
Abby puts the girl up in some kind of foster home. Abby relocates and sees troops come home and she boards a train. The girl and her friend run away from the foster home.
