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Heart of the Country

2013 · 87 min

A gentle, sincere prodigal-daughter drama that trades city glamour for southern porch light, coasting on soft emotion and easy comfort rather than surprise.

Directed by
John Ward
Genres
Drama, Romance
Overview
With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried emotions of sudden death of Faith’s mother years ago, and learn to be a family again.

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Directed by
John Ward
Genres
Drama, Romance
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • grief
  • healing
  • identity
  • love
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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