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Release Date:
8 October 1999 (USA)
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Tagline:
In a perfect world...they never would have met.
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After the death of their loved ones in a tragic plane crash 'Harrison Ford' and Kristin Scott Thomas find...
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Sydney Pollack Dies at 73
(From IMDb News. 27 May 2008, 4:12 AM, PDT)
Kidman Wanted for 'Interpreter' Role
(From WENN. 28 July 2003)
(From IMDb News. 27 May 2008, 4:12 AM, PDT)
Kidman Wanted for 'Interpreter' Role
(From WENN. 28 July 2003)
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Yawn Down '99
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Harrison Ford | ... | 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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Rated R for brief violence, sexuality and language.
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133 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:14A (Alberta) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (British Columbia/Manitoba) |
USA:R (certificate #36468) |
Malaysia:18SX |
Iceland:12 |
South Korea:18 |
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) |
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The 1984 novel by Warren Adler that the film is adapted from was based on the January 1982 "Air Florida" plane crash into the Potomac River, flying out of National Airport, Washington, D.C.
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Boom mic visible: The first time that Kay faces reporters a mike is visible on white background
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Dutch Van Den Broeck:
What's the last thing that you can remember about your husband that you know to be true?
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Featured in "HBO First Look: The Making of 'Random Hearts' (#6.8)" (1999)
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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.