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  • 1999
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 13 m

Summary An airplane crashes into the Chesapeake Bay, leaving no survivors. This event is the beginning of a mystery that will not only lead two strangers (Ford and Thomas) to disturbing and shocking information about their spouses, but will also bring them together in an unlikely romance. (Columbia Tristar)

Directed By: Sydney Pollack

Written By: Warren Adler, Darryl Ponicsan, Kurt Luedtke

  • 1999
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 13 m

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Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 35 Critic Reviews
38
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 20 User Ratings
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Summary An airplane crashes into the Chesapeake Bay, leaving no survivors. This event is the beginning of a mystery that will not only lead two strangers (Ford and Thomas) to disturbing and shocking information about their spouses, but will also bring them together in an unlikely romance. (Columbia Tristar)

Directed By: Sydney Pollack

Written By: Warren Adler, Darryl Ponicsan, Kurt Luedtke

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 35 Critic Reviews
38
17% Positive
6 Reviews
51% Mixed
18 Reviews
31% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 35 Critic Reviews
38
17% Positive
6 Reviews
51% Mixed
18 Reviews
31% Negative
11 Reviews

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75
(Ford and Thomas) give Random Hearts muscle when the story turns flabby, spine where it sags, wings where it threatens to stay earthbound.
By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW
60
Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
50
The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.
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40
You'll get that $8 nap you've been craving.
By Gregory Weinkauf FULL REVIEW
40
Has spread itself so thin between plot, subplots and great scads of floppy pop-psych, it has nothing else to do but lie down and die of exhaustion.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
30
Humorless, lugubrious, and interminable.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
8
Dissects the dicey question of fidelity with all the finesse of a Veg-O-Matic and leaves us with something closer to chopped liver than broken hearts.
By Diana Abu-Jaber FULL REVIEW

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35% Negative
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35% Negative
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Production Company Columbia Pictures, Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG, Mirage Enterprises, Rastar Pictures, SPE German Finance Co., Sprockets Music
Release Date Oct 8, 1999
Duration 2 h 13 m
Rating R
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Tagline He'll stop at nothing to find the truth.
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