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Random Hearts

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 35 critic reviews
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Based on 2 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Warren Adler (novel)
Darryl Ponicsan (adaptation)
Kurt Luedtke
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 8, 1999
DVD: February 29, 2000
Running Time: 133 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for brief violence, sexuality and language
Starring Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Jenkins, Charles Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, and Peter Coyote
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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
(Ford and Thomas) give Random Hearts muscle when the story turns flabby, spine where it sags, wings where it threatens to stay earthbound.
Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
There's a lot of satisfaction in seeing two stars given this much time and space to examine a complex relationship.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
It's still strangely remote, only fitfully romantic, never really convincing.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
Like a guy who finally gets what he wants, you just want to go home once it's over.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
The cinematic equivalent of enduring a cross-country airplane flight trapped in a seat next to a manic depressive.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Janet Maslin
The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
This ponderous romantic melodrama...passes like a day behind bars.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The film's underlying concept is so irredeemably screwy and far-fetched that no amount of fine work can hope to make it convincing.
Read Full Review >Film.com John Hartl
Not a conventional love story, and perhaps it's not a love story at all. After more than two hours, you're left wondering what it is.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
Sorely needs the injection of skepticism - a quality that would have been even more useful when Pollack was mulling over doing Random Hearts in the first place.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop.
Read Full Review >TNT RoughCut Christopher Brandon
It risks the believability factor for anyone who's ever been cheated on or lost a loved one.
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
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.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
An ideal rainy day matinee attraction for well-to-do ladies of a certain age.
Read Full Review >Film.com Peter Brunette
Starts off brilliantly and then gradually -- actually, not so gradually -- peters out.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
An adult love story that's trying for stiff-upper-lip poignancy.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
There's just no reason why it should take more than two hours for so little to happen.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Even a search party would be hard-pressed to find a spark between Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas in Pollack's latest tear-jerker.
Washington Post Rita Kempley
Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
A grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Hollywood hit-making at its efficient, formulaic worst.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Might best be described as bereavement porn.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Just another tepid entry into this year's Death-as-Turn-On Sweepstakes.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
A moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Diana Abu-Jaber
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Raluca M. gave it an 8:
I really liked it ;)
[Anonymous] gave it a 0:
This was the worst movie I have ever seen. It totally sucked the life force out of me.
