clara's heart

Director: robert mulligan

Actor: whoopi goldberg,michael ontkean,kathleen quinlan,neil patrick harris

Data Published: Fri Oct 07 1988

Genres: Drama

Key Words: jamaican woman,teen angst,writer,choir,reference to arnold schwarzenegger

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094882/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%27s_Heart

Description: Clara's Heart is a movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean, and Kathleen Quinlan. A Jamaican woman becomes the housekeeper for a rich Baltimore family and bonds with a disillusioned teenage boy.

Plot: The film tells the story of a family in crisis. The mother, Leona (Quinlan), escapes to Jamaica to grieve the loss of her baby daughter, Edith, who died of sudden infant death syndrome. While there she meets kindly housekeeper Clara Mayfield (Goldberg). 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 their home in Baltimore to be housekeeper and nanny to young son David (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.