Clara's Heart

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Clara's Heart ★ 1988 (PG-13)

A Jamaican maid enriches the lives of her insufferable, bourgeois employers and their particularly repellent son. A kinder, gentler waste of film and Goldberg; sentimental claptrap which occasionally lapses into comedy. 108m/C VHS . Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Neil Patrick Harris, Spalding Gray, Beverly Todd, Hattie Winston; D: Robert Mulligan; W: Mark Medoff; M: Dave Grusin.