Amy Madigan's touching perfomance in Places of the Heart as a small-town schoolteacher in doomed love with a married man (Ed Harris) was a high point in a film full of masterful acting. She went on to seethe at Gene Hackman's betrayal in Twice in a Lifetime; re-team with Harris for Alamo Bay; blaze in the controversial, 1989 telefilm Roe vs. Wade; and indulge Kevin Costner's baseball fixation as his grounded, good-natured wife in Field of Dreams. Madigan's heartbreaking role in the 1994 Lifetime Television movie And Then There Was One, as a woman who watches her husband and child succumb to AIDS, earned critical raves and the CableACE award for Best Actress.
