Clara’s Heart

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 17:24 | Filled in ==> MOVIES - OVERVIEW

101864_89x160Director: Robert Mulligan

Writer: Mark Medoff

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Neil Patrick Harris, Spalding Gray

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Clara’s Heart is a 1988 movie starring Kathleen Quinlan and Whoopi Goldberg.

The movie tells the story of a family in crisis. The mother, Leona, escapes to Jamaica to grieve the loss of her baby daughter. While there she meets kindly housekeeper Clara Mayfield.

buy Alli online left;”>00092111_Clara pulls Leona out of her depression with a blunt, no-nonsense style. Leona is so taken with her that she brings Clara back to the States, Baltimore to be exact, to be housekeeper and nanny to young son David, played by Neil Patrick Harris.

At first he is resistant and sees her as an intruder. But as the parents are completely wrapped up in their own grief and dissolving marriage, David comes to trust Clara and to depend on her. Clara harbors her own dark secret, which when revealed, serves to firm the bond between these two very different, but loving, characters.

Memorable quotes from the movie:

Clara Mayfield: [introducing David to her friend Blanche]
[spoken with Jamaican patois]
Clara Mayfield: Ah… der be da tarment of me existence. Dey call him Devid.
David Hart: Chow Bobo. Me not da tarment of HER existence. In dis house, de tarment is everywhere and de Ja-MEEEEEEEE-can woman tarment me fa certain as much as me tarment her.
Blanche Loudon: Where him learn patois?
Clara Mayfield: Only one place I can think of.
Blanche Loudon: Dahn talk dat way. Anly looooow class people talk dat way.
Clara Mayfield: Child, dan’t encourage him.
*
Catherine the decorator: Um David, what do you think of your dad’s apartment?
David Hart: Well, it’s pretty goddamn ostentatious if you ask me, but of course that’s just a kid’s opinion. I mean, I don’t even speak Italian. Are you sexually involved with my father?
*
Dora: [in Jamaican patois] Where you get dis here white child Miz Blanche?
David Hart: [in Jamaican patois] She get me at a church bazaar. I was lef’ dere in da manger.
*
Blanche Loudon: [in Jamaican patois] I should be slappin’ yer backside fer all da trouble ya givin’ my Clara.
David Hart: [also in Jamaican patois] Oh no sweet dahlin’; dat’s anudda moo-moo ya talkin’ ’bout. See, dis child is meek and give da woman nuttin’ but joy.

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