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Random Hearts
Sony / Columbia
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Warren Adler (novel)
Darryl Ponicsan (adaptation)
Kurt Luedtke
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Sydney Pollack
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 29, 2000
Video: February 29, 2000
Theatrical: October 8, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
133 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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...
75
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.
72
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.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's still strangely remote, only fitfully romantic, never really convincing.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A-list soap opera, high-class and high-gloss.
63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Like a guy who finally gets what he wants, you just want to go home once it's over.
63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The fundamental problem is the point of view.
60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling.
50
USA Today
Mike Clark
Likely one-week box office wonder.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The cinematic equivalent of enduring a cross-country airplane flight trapped in a seat next to a manic depressive.
50
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This ponderous romantic melodrama...passes like a day behind bars.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
As clumsy as its title.
50
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.
50
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.
50
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.
42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop.
40
TNT RoughCut
Christopher Brandon
It risks the believability factor for anyone who's ever been cheated on or lost a loved one.
40
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.
40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
An ideal rainy day matinee attraction for well-to-do ladies of a certain age.
40
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Everyone in the film is a walking cliché.
40
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Starts off brilliantly and then gradually -- actually, not so gradually -- peters out.
40
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
You'll get that $8 nap you've been craving.
40
Newsweek
David Ansen
An adult love story that's trying for stiff-upper-lip poignancy.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
There's just no reason why it should take more than two hours for so little to happen.
30
Film.com
Tom Keogh
What we have here is a small story in an oversized setting.
30
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.
30
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
30
Time
Richard Schickel
A grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal.
30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Humorless, lugubrious, and interminable.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Hollywood hit-making at its efficient, formulaic worst.
25
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Might best be described as bereavement porn.
25
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Just another tepid entry into this year's Death-as-Turn-On Sweepstakes.
25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Gives romance a bad name.
20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony.
8
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.
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