
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to new experiences, and eventually leading to a disturbing secret in Clara's past.... (Full plot summary below)
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David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to new experiences, and eventually leading to a disturbing secret in Clara's past.
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| Rolling StonePeter TraversStarting with the outrageous and building from there, he ignites a slight love-on-the-run novel, creating a bonfire of a movie that confirms his reputation as the most exciting and innovative filmmaker of his generation. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrMisfit cameos, apparently random asides and an almost continuous onslaught of unsettling sex and violence mean theres no mistaking David Lynchs hand behind the camera -- but theres enough of a narrative to make this work as a straightforward road movie, too. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDavid Lynch doesn't tell stories as much as he shows hallucinations. Wierd, wild, excessive, obsessive, idiosyncratic visions. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonAll and all, it adds up to a delightful, unpretentious movie, hands down the richest work Whoopi Goldberg has done on the screen. |
| The Associated PressDolores BarclayClara's Heart has several pluses. There's the rapport between Goldberg and Harris, impressive in his screen debut. And it is a relief to see Goldberg working back into The Color Purple mode. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatTouching film about the friendship between a Jamaican housekeeper and a young boy. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinDirected by Robert Mulligan in an unapologetically sentimental style, Clara's Heart succeeds in tugging the heartstrings only when Clara herself is on screen. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere is something repulsive and manipulative about it, and even its best scenes have the flavor of a kid in the school yard, trying to show you pictures you don't feel like looking at. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordHere is a bad movie into which a great character seems to have dropped from another dimension. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonThe movie's initial intensity is so great, it consumes itself. By the time we reach the final scene, which is clearly supposed to exude glorious rapture between offbeat lovers Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, it has all the warming effect of cold ash. |