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  Random Hearts (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Watching the thoroughly awful romantic drama Random Hearts may not be quite as traumatic as facing one's own mortality, but it will likely cause audiences to engage similar coping mechanisms.
Hearts is a washout on every level, from the wooden performances right down to Dave Grusin's horrendous smooth jazz score (nearly identical to the one used in the earlier Pollack/Grusin venture The Firm).
Random Hearts purports itself to be a story of survival — in reality, it's a survival exercise for the audience, who would best be served by not taking the flight at all.
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 Encyclopedia: Random Hearts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kristin Scott Thomas in Random Hearts Kristin Scott Thomas OBE (born May 24, 1960) is a British actress, born in Redruth, Cornwall, Britain.
Random Hearts is one of those movies that will probably end up as a fl mark upon an otherwise good resume of films for good actors.
Sitting through the two-and-a-half hours of "Random Hearts" is as much fun as watching paint dry-- you know you're in for a long one when it takes nearly forty-five minutes for the two main characters to hook up.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Random-Hearts   (1269 words)

  
 Review: Random Hearts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Random Hearts is the latest big-budget disappointment to come out of Hollywood - a meditation on grief and loss that is sabotaged by shallow writing and the desire to inject romance where it is clearly out of place.
Random Hearts is riddled with problems, most of which are rooted in the script.
Random Hearts' examination of grief is perfunctory and unsatisfactory.
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 Random Hearts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Random Hearts (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are so many good things in "Random Hearts," but they're side by side instead of one after the other.
"Random Hearts," directed by Sydney Pollack, is too intent on its agenda to stop and observe that; it is about the living and not the dead.
Although "Random Hearts" is primarily about the relationship between the two survivors, the early scenes have their own fascination.
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 Random Hearts
Random Hearts is a movie that probably once looked good on paper, but watching it makes you realize how far off that time was.
She does a moderately good job in the first half, trying to put the past behind her and gearing up for her campaign, but once the love starts flowing, her character does an about face and becomes uncredible.
Random Hearts is one of those movies that will probably end up as a fl mark upon an otherwise good resume of films for good actors.
www.haro-online.com /movies/random_hearts.html   (652 words)

  
 Salon Arts & Entertainment | "Random Hearts"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ford is the graying and handsomely grizzled Dutch Van Den Broeck, a sergeant in the internal affairs division of the Washington police department.
What's potentially interesting about "Random Hearts" -- although the opportunity to fully explore it ends up being wasted -- is its suggestion that infidelity doesn't have to be the end of the world for anybody.
At the very least, though, "Random Hearts" tries to put a fresh spin on an old subject and is never heavy-handedly moralistic.
salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/10/08/random   (1155 words)

  
 Random Hearts Audio Book
Random Hearts is now available as an audio book.
Random Hearts was authored by Warren Adler and is narrated by Michael Kramer.
Random Hearts is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
www.audio-book.ws /books/random-hearts.php   (399 words)

  
 Random Hearts Reviews
Just in time for the first frost of the season comes "Random Hearts," a romance between two ice cubes that moves at the speed of a glacier.
Random Hearts isn't so different, insofar that 'Dutch' Vand Den Broeck (Harrison Ford) also goes to great lengths in an...
Sydney Pollack's RANDOM HEARTS, starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas, is a study of the contrasting ways in which two people from vastly different backgrounds face identical tragedies and of the romance that ensues between them.
www.killermovies.com /r/randomhearts/reviews   (504 words)

  
 Random Hearts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In Random Hearts his righteousness is wasted on a stupid, soapy situation.
The problem is that the film doesn't give us enough information about his dead wife so that we understand his need to relive her affair.
RANDOM HEARTS 1 star (R) Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Sydney Pollack, Dennis Haysbert.
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 Sydney Pollack/Random hearts - de Filmkrant net-versie van november 1999, nr 205
Random hearts, een overspeldrama met Harrison Ford, is er zo één.
Random hearts is een nogal ongewoon, langgerekt liefdesdrama, waarin de levens van een politieman en een vrouwelijke senator (Harrison Ford en Kristin Scott Thomas) elkaar kruisen doordat hun echtgenoten bij een vliegtuigongeluk om het leven komen.
Alhoewel Pollack een comfortabele positie inneemt in Hollywood, was hij zich er bij Random hearts van bewust dat het onderwerp niet lekker in de markt ligt en dat er dus wat op het spel stond.
www.filmkrant.nl /av/org/filmkran/archief/fk205/pollack.html   (828 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Random Hearts
Random Hearts is very frustrating because there is such a wealth of good material—the main problem being the filmmakers don't know what parts to use and focus on.
Both characters are such private people that they hide behind their façades of putting everything behind them till it all breaks loose in a moment of unexpected and very convincing passion.
There were so many moments in Random Hearts that just felt so "right" only to have those moments washed away by the many sub-plots that run through the movie.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/randomhearts.php   (868 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - RANDOM HEARTS by Warren Adler
RANDOM HEARTS is the story of Vivien and Edward, two people who are thrust inside each other's lives --- and marriages --- because of their unfaithful spouses.
It is also the story of Lily and Orson, their spouses --- the other random hearts that came together and unraveled the marriages.
Their roles seemingly worked within the framework of their relationship, but they now have learned to question who they were and how they impacted the marriages.
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 Random Hearts (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ford is a police sergeant working in internal affairs and Thomas is a New Hampshire congresswoman whose paths cross when their spouses, who are having a secret affair with each other, die in a plane crash.
Moreover, the film pads out its narrative by constantly cutting away to an irrelevant and wholly underdeveloped subplot involving Ford's pursuit of a murderous cop - a sideshow that results in a completely ludicrous shooting scene that undercuts the seriousness of the film's purpose.
"Random Hearts" is an obvious and, perhaps, even admirable attempt to bring a more mature, adult-oriented love story to the screen.
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 Random Hearts movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
Random Hearts is a film that opens nice, but ends very soft and dull.
Random Hearts is a different type of story, but the overall film does let audiences down after starting off pretty well.
I enjoyed the acting and the first hour of Random Hearts, but the film just falls apart, by weak scenes thrown in towards the end and the length of the film.
www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/r/randomhearts.htm   (537 words)

  
 The Audio Revolution Review of 'Random Hearts'
After seeing ‘Random Hearts,’ it’s not surprising to learn that the film, based on Warren Adler’s 1984 novel, took 15 years to reach the screen.
The big, powerful, life-changing relationships at the heart of the film are those between Kay and her husband and, even more, between Dutch and his wife.
The emotions conveyed in ‘Random Hearts’ are appropriate to the situation, but at over two hours, they ought to induce more empathy than they do here.
www.audiorevolution.com /movies/randomhearts   (688 words)

  
 Random Hearts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If the screenwriters of Random Hearts, loosely based on a 1984 novel by Warren Adler, have ever been in a relationship, it must have been a long-distance one.
Either that, or the two spouses who discover secrets about their respective wife and husband after a plane crash are among the most clueless on Earth.
Random Hearts is a glossy-looking movie, but underneath the glare of Ford’s stardom and Scott Thomas’ perfectly highlighted hair is a wishy-washy romance that doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.
www.citylinkmagazine.com /random.html   (748 words)

  
 Random Hearts Movie Review
In this film, Ford plays an internal affairs detective (he was much better as a police officer in the far superior The Devil's Own) who gets the disheartening news that his wife has died in a plane crash.
Random Hearts was directed by the overrated Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, The Firm) who, ironically, seems a better actor (Death Becomes Her, Eyes Wide Shut) than director.
In the end, Random Hearts is an uninteresting character study about obsession and betrayal, topics that Eyes Wide Shut dealt with in a much more innovative way.
www.zboneman.com /movies/403.html   (290 words)

  
 JoBlo reviews the movie "Random Hearts"- Comments1
RANDOM HEARTS had the potential to be a really good movie - good director, great cast, interesting story line...
I think that RANDOM HEARTS is going to be more appreciated in Europe where the audiences are less used to dumb commercial movies.
"Random Hearts" is definitely one of the better films of the year.
www.joblo.com /randomhearts1.htm   (1791 words)

  
 CNN - Review: 'Random Hearts' a mature meander - October 8, 1999
Unfortunately, "Random Hearts" isn't a cake, it's a film, and it's only half-baked.
A dictionary definition of "random" is "lacking aim or method; purposeless; haphazard." That, in a nutshell, is the verdict on "Random Hearts."
"Random Hearts" is rated R for brief violence, sexuality and language.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9910/08/review.random.hearts/index.html   (655 words)

  
 Random Hearts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Random Hearts is a 1984 novel by American author Warren Adler that was made into a 1999 American motion picture drama and romance.
It tells the story of a man and a woman who meet when their loved ones are killed in a plane crash.
Random Hearts publication history at the Internet Book List
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 Random Hearts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Random Hearts (terrible title, but that's a whole other article) tells the tale of a horrible coincidence.
Pollack's attention to unnecessary plot minutia and the type of screenplay the film is based on are the two main causes for this film's tedium (plus miscasting, but that is itself too tedious to go into).
Random Hearts has one of those arrivals and departures screenplays.
www.cinemonkey.com /reviews/holmrandom/randomheartsholm.html   (759 words)

  
 Random Hearts - Review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During its theatrical release, Random Hearts was positively trashed by critics, namely because it wasn't the typical Harrison Ford vehicle.
Dutch Vanden Berg (Ford) is a Washington D.C. cop who, in the span of a day, learns that his wife has died in a plane crash and, then, that his wife was on the plane because she was flying away for the weekend with her lover.
The problems in Random Hearts arise as tangents in Vanden Berg's journey toward truth, with a very tacked on romance with Kristen Scott-Thomas.
www.centerstage.net /stumped/Reviews/random-hearts.shtml   (180 words)

  
 Random Hearts Movie Review at Hollywood Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For those who are still up to the challenge (making it all the way through this flick, that is), the Random Hearts DVD offers a beautiful 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer of the film, highlighting cinematographer Philippe Rousselot's (Interview with the Vampire) sumptuous work.
Theatrical trailers for Random Hearts, The Way We Were, Absence of Malice, The Devil's Own, and Air Force One are also included.
Random Hearts is a bad movie with a couple of good moments.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=46127   (2100 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Random Hearts and Message in a Bottle Porn to Be Mild Random Hearts and Message in a Bottle There's a subgenre of romance movies that I like to call relationship porn.
Broken hearts Message in a Bottle is as fine (I use the term loosely) an example of relationship porn as you'll find.
His secretly tender heart is broken into a thousand pieces by the untimely death of his wife.
www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/4q99/randomheartsmessage.html   (1203 words)

  
 MetroActive Movies | 'Random Hearts'
Random acts of kindness: Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas portray two people thrown together through tragedy in Random Hearts.
Judging from his onscreen performance, Pollack is not exactly the man you'd expect to be so slow, so terminally restrained behind the camera.
Pollack looks like a man who could understand how a woman could have sex with her husband in the morning and deceive him in the afternoon.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/10.14.99/randomhearts-9941.html   (513 words)

  
 Random Hearts DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Perhaps this was not the tone that Pollack was hoping to create with Random Hearts, but it was what I witnessed when I watched it.
It was because of an airport that these two random strangers met, now throughout the film, they have some of their toughest moments back in that same airport.
Rent "Random Hearts" its a film that offers no easy answers and that is rare today.
www.apexesources.com /dvd/043396040007   (1217 words)

  
 K.U.T : Recensie : Random Hearts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Random Hearts begint nogal dramatisch met een vliegtuigongeluk.
Random Hearts is het soort film dat ervoor kan zorgen dat je je lief nooit zou willen bedriegen.
Het is ook een film die je ook alles op een rijtje laat zetten van dingen die aan het licht kunnen komen als je zelf om de hoek wandelt.
www.kutsite.com /recensie/randomhearts.html   (374 words)

  
 Random Hearts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Art, through all its expressions, whether we are talking about painting or poetry, is the only thing that can adorn the reality.
So, if you want to challenge your destiny relax and become one of the characters of the film Random Hearts.
So, if you want to challenge your destiny relax and be an adventurer in the film Random Hearts.
www.wonderful-people.com /Movies_and_Films/films/Drama/index3/Drama10331.htm   (134 words)

  
 EI > Reviews > Random Hearts (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Random Hearts is being sold to audiences as a romance about two people who in a perfect world never would have met.
I think that would have been a fine premise for the movie, but with a title like Random Hearts, a sickeningly heavy-handed score, and some really embarrassing romance novel dialogue, I don't think it was the filmmakers' desired intent.
But perhaps nothing can sum up my feelings about Random Hearts better than to say that when this particular bombshell was dropped, I could not have possibly cared less.
www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/randomhearts.php   (616 words)

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