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Release Date: 1985

Cast: Gwen Welles, Andra Akers, Alex McArthur, Dean Butler, Audra Lindley, James Staley, Jeffrey Tambor, Katie La Bourdette, Tyler Tyhurst, Denise Crosby, Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau

Categories: Movies, LGBT, Indie, Film adaptation, Gay, Period piece, Gay Interest, Gay Themed, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Feminist Film

Desert Hearts is a 1985 lesbian-themed romantic drama film loosely based on the Jane Rule novel Desert of the Heart. Directed by Donna Deitch, the film stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau with a supporting performance by Audra Lindley. Desert Hearts is set in 1959. Vivian Bell (Shaver), an English professor at Columbia University, travels to Nevada to establish six-week residency to obtain a divorce. She stays at a guest house for women waiting for their divorces to be finalized, owned by Frances Parker (Lindley). Vivian meets Cay Rivvers (Charbonneau), a free-spirited sculptor to... MORE

Desert Hearts is a 1985 lesbian-themed romantic drama film loosely based on the Jane Rule novel Desert of the Heart. Directed by Donna Deitch, the film stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau with a supporting performance by Audra Lindley. Desert Hearts is set in 1959. Vivian Bell (Shaver), an English professor at Columbia University, travels to Nevada to establish six-week residency to obtain a divorce. She stays at a guest house for women waiting for their divorces to be finalized, owned by Frances Parker (Lindley). Vivian meets Cay Rivvers (Charbonneau), a free-spirited sculptor to whom Frances is a surrogate mother. Cay works at a casino as a change operator in Reno, and is ending a relationship with Darrell, her boss, because as she put it, she "allowed (her)self to be attracted to his attraction" for her. When Vivian arrives, Cay notices her, and tightly controlled and elegant Vivian in turn is taken aback by Cay's boldness and lack of concern of what others think of her. Cay reveals that she has had relationships with women in the past. Frances notices that Vivian is becoming a bigger part of Cay's life and resents her for it, afraid that Cay will leave her and she will LESS