Ultimately, his children take him in after Sheryl finds him, and he starts to see the world in a new light.Įvicted from Dutch House after they've all helped Lionel with his dresses and Chloe with her calendar, the homeless shelter turns the McBains and friends away. Sleeping in the homeless cardboard box shanty town, scavenging the next day in the dump. Mr McBain disappears into the city, feeling down and out. Jean shows up at the Dutch House hysterical as he loses their home and they become destitute. Desperately attempting to stave off a hostile takeover of his demolition company, he fails. Chloe uses her roommates to model in the calendar, incorporating their bodies into ethereal murals on their walls, and Lionel ends up using some of them for his show.Ī stockmarket crash where Tom is chiefly responsible for Mr McBain's stock plummeting,īrings McBain to ruin. Lionel has to complete his designs for a fashion show. Chloe is commissioned to finish a calendar for an insurance company. These include a fashion designer named Lionel a homeless magician, Shitty a stockbroker, Tom and Sheryl, an amateur occultist. In order to finance their new lives, the children take on housemates.

Jean, their mother, tries to stop him but in vain. Giving them each $750, he drops them off at the Dutch House, which is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse. Returning home, his three college-aged children–Daphne, Chloe, and Jimmy–ridicule him for his television appearance.įeeling his children are spoiled, McBain kicks them out of the house.

When McBain appears on TV to dismiss the protests, he is made to look foolish.

In the midst of one such project, a group of protesters stops the last building on a lot, the Dutch House, from being demolished. Stewart McBain is a successful self-made demolitions expert who blows up buildings for a living. Where the Heart Is is a 1990 American romantic comedy film co-written and directed by John Boorman and starring Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis, and Christopher Plummer.

Wild at heart is a shitty film