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  • 2007
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  • Millennium Films
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Millennium Films
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary Lonely Hearts is a vivid retelling of the real life murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez (America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers") and its connection to the tragic story of Detective Elmer C. Robinson who helped capture the killers but lost his wife in the process. (Millennium Films)

Directed By: Todd Robinson

Written By: Todd Robinson

  • 2007
  • R
  • Millennium Films
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Millennium Films
  • 1 h 48 m

Lonely Hearts

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary Lonely Hearts is a vivid retelling of the real life murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez (America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers") and its connection to the tragic story of Detective Elmer C. Robinson who helped capture the killers but lost his wife in the process. (Millennium Films)

Directed By: Todd Robinson

Written By: Todd Robinson

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Todd Robinson constructs a riveting thriller.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
70
As fictional characters in a movie that is fetishistic in its attention to period detail, Mr. Leto and Ms. Hayek work well together as an unsavory couple two rungs down the social ladder from Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity."
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
67
Travolta gives a hangdog performance as the world-weary cop obsessed with rooting out the killers. Hayek and Leto share a few tart black comic moments as the film spirals into a bloodbath.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
63
While Travolta and Gandolfini have the beefy, closed-off look of post-WWII era cops, they never FEEL: They look like actors playing dress up. Leto overcomes his delicate good looks to embody Fernandez's feral, faintly exotic charm, but Hayek is a standard-issue femme fatale, damaged on the inside but flawless on the surface.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
60
A handsome and well-acted film -- if you like that bitten-off, half-Hemingway style -- but also a grim, emotionally strangled one with a strong sadistic current, no genuinely likable characters and almost no humor.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
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Good as she is, the effortlessly magnetic Hayek just can't sell the role of a pathetic soul whose deep insecurities turn her into a sociopath. And if she has too much charisma, Leto, as the smooth Lothario, simply doesn't have enough.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Todd Robinson, grandson of the real-life Elmer, never fully commits to the heartlessness of the genre as Arthur Penn did in "Bonnie and Clyde."
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Production Company Millennium Films, Emmett/Furla Oasis Films, Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG III, Holly Wiersma Productions, Lonely Hearts Productions, Nu Image Entertainment GmbH
Release Date Apr 13, 2007
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Love can be murder.
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Awards

San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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