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Random Hearts (1999)

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User Rating: 4.7/10 (9,097 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Sydney Pollack
Writers (WGA):
Warren Adler (novel)
Darryl Ponicsan (adaptation)
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Release Date:
8 October 1999 (USA) more view trailer
Genre:
Drama | Mystery | Romance more
Tagline:
In a perfect world...they never would have met.
Plot:
After the death of their loved ones in a tragic plane crash 'Harrison Ford' and Kristin Scott Thomas find... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Yawn Down '99 more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Harrison Ford ... Sergeant William 'Dutch' Van Den Broeck

Kristin Scott Thomas ... Kay Chandler

Charles S. Dutton ... Alcee

Bonnie Hunt ... Wendy Judd

Dennis Haysbert ... Detective George Beaufort

Sydney Pollack ... Carl Broman
Richard Jenkins ... Truman Trainor
Paul Guilfoyle ... Dick Montoya
Susanna Thompson ... Peyton Van Den Broeck

Peter Coyote ... Cullen Chandler

Dylan Baker ... Richard Judd
Lynne Thigpen ... Phyllis Bonaparte

Susan Floyd ... Molly Roll

Bill Cobbs ... Marvin

Kate Mara ... Jessica Chandler
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for brief violence, sexuality and language.
Runtime:
133 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (DeLuxe)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS
Certification:
Iceland:12 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | South Korea:18 | USA:R (certificate #36468) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Manitoba) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:14A (Alberta) | Malaysia:18SX | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:6 | Mexico:B | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15
Filming Locations:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Harrison Ford said he would never work with Sydney Pollack again after the film flopped, artistically and commercially. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Dutch visits Kay in her hotel room, the door opens to the inside right. When Dutch is about to leave the door suddenly opens to the inside left. more
Quotes:
Phyllis Bonaparte: I really don't think you should be alone right now.
Dutch Van Den Broeck: Oh, yeah? I was alone before you got here.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Game K N B: (2007-03-15)" (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Feliz more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Yawn Down '99, 7 December 2006
Author: inspectors71 from The State of Confusion

The concept of two people (internal affairs detective Harrison Ford and US Representative Kristen Scott Thomas) with nothing in common but their respective cheating spouses having just died in the crash of an airliner, and the two strangers being forced to deal with the emotional and physical wreckage, holds about twenty minutes worth of interest in Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts, a 133 minute yawn fest best viewed on TNT (in order to avoid the cost of a rental). This is an amazingly dull movie.

I have admired much of Pollack's work (and he is an engaging character actor whose performance in Tootsie was both pleasing and funny), but Random Hearts is easily one of the dullest pieces of film making I've ever dozed through. There is quite simply nothing to hold your interest, not even a lame side story of Harrison Ford trying to prosecute a corrupt cop. There's no intellectual or sexual tension, no intense interest in finding out the details of the spouses' relationship, and I defy you to care whether or not Ford and Thomas get past their grieving to become a couple.

It's all so forced and TVish that I'm not sure why I stuck with it to the ending credits.

This is the sort of expensive, glossy junk that talented actors and directors sometimes put out there to suck us in and make for themselves some quick cash.

I think it would have been more merciful if the film stock had crashed in the Potomac with the cheating spouses.

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