Promised Land is a 1987 drama film written and directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan.

Promised Land was filmed in Reno, Nevada and various locations in Utah, with the assistance of the Sundance Institute, and Robert Redford is credited as one of two executive producers.

[4] In the Los Angeles Times, Michael Wilmington wrote, "There’s something a little tentative and unsatisfying about the last few scenes but, forgetting them, Promised Land is almost a great American movie--in the anguished, poetically off-kilter tradition of Kazan's East of Eden, Malick's Days of Heaven and Badlands, Ray's They Live by Night.

It’s a gently scary film, and its images echo long afterwards--the serpent on Bev’s back, the trapped dustiness of Danny’s old house, all the angels passing by .

and the lonely pink car lost in love’s desert, rushing toward crushed dreams, whirling slowly in its mad and sandy spins of death.

"[5] The performance of Meg Ryan received acclaim, with Wilmington writing, "Ripping against the elegiac mood, she galvanizes the movie--whipping psychopathically between wounded tenderness and shrieking rage, raucous gaiety and mean, starved fury.