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Carroll focuses his film on four couples, all in one way or another battling with the problems of relationships, ranging from long-marrieds (Gena Rowlands and Sean Connery) to Gen-X club-hoppers (Angelina Jolie and Ryan Phillippe). Ostensibly, part of the film is invested in the mystery of how all these characters are interrelated, but keen viewers will be able to discern the connections among them all. It's the uniformly excellent performances, though, that make Playing by Heart compulsively watchable. Most striking, surprisingly enough, are Jolie and Phillippe, the youngest members of the cast who reveal heretofore hidden depths of talent. Jolie in particular increases her already-soaring stock as an actress. Equally impressive are Gillian Anderson and Jon Stewart, who transcend their yuppie personas in their awkward enactment of the timeless dating rituals. Other cast members, including Dennis Quaid, Anthony Edwards, Ellen Burstyn, Jay Mohr and the always-luminous Madeleine Stowe, are quite good, though saddled with story lines that are occasionally less than compelling. The only complaint you'll have is that once everyone's connections are revealed, you'll wish this cast had more of an opportunity to interact. The journey toward the film's bittersweet end, however, is marvellous in and of itself. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com
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Give this film a go, I think that you will be pleasantly suprised! The DVD includes all the usual extras and wil;l become an essential part of your collection.
It's not though; the film for casual watching and to really get anything from the film a fair amount of concentration is essential. Definitely not the movie for everyone you will have few laugh-out-loud moments but should leave the cinema touched and amused.
A solid 5 star movie overall some truly entertaining twists make this well worth your time.
The older generation are represented by Paul (Sean Connery) and Hannah (Gena Rowlands) squabbling about a love affair Paul had twenty five years ago as they approach their fortieth wedding anniversary. It is a pleasure to see Connery acting a part and not playing himself as so often happens.
Two of the couples Joan (Jolie) and Keenan (Phillip), Meredith (Anderson) and Trent (Stewart) are trying to recover from the trauma of failed relationships, Gracie (Stowe) and Roger (Edwards) are cheating on each other, and mother love comes in the form of Mildred (Burstyn) whose gay son Mark (Mohr) is dying of AIDs. There are also other occasional characters that slightly confuse the plot with other problems.
This is a well acted, well directed film, moving and warmly involving, and arriving at a feel good but not sentimental ending that makes for a very satisfying evenings viewing.
of fluff - but a very well acted and moving bit of fluff.... i loved it....
Joan (Angelina Jolie) is an aspiring actress who has just come out of a relationship that ended badly and finds herself falling for a guy she meets in a club (Ryan Phillipe) who says he 'does not date' and keeps brushing her off. She tries everything but he remains aloof...
Meredith (Gillian Anderson) is a play writer who has been burned one too many times and cannot see a future in any relationship. A pessimist inside and out she meets an architect who threatens to make it behind her walls which terrifies her causing her to push him away even harder.
Gracie is having an affair with a man about whom she knows nothing. To her that is the beauty of it. They come into the room without baggage and leave without any either. But why is she doing it? And what does her hubby know?
Paul (Sean Connery) and Hannah are a couple who have survived the decades only to find out that Paul has a brain tumour. Hannah finds a picture of another woman (who she is sure he had an affair with years ago) in his desk and delves into the past asking him for the truth. It leads to a very sticky situation and shows that even 40yr old marraiges have there problems but you just have to wade through it.
These are the main characters but there are a few more stories running alongside these ones. Its not all happy and wonderful and there are a few tear jerking scenes as is the way in real life...
A good movie, with an excellent cast and some fine acting. Worth watching. Im just not sure if its worth purchasing the dvd! There are no special features (unless u count subtitles!!!... Read more ›
Lots of great actors and great perfomances. I liked it and I recommend it!
it is a dramatic comedy about the many faces of love, consisting of six seemingly unrelated tales about men and women, finding each other, losing each other and discovering things and secrets about themselves and others.
The movie has a well-acted gallery of characters, which makes it hard to dislike any of them.
Paul(Sean Connery) and Hanna (Gena Rowlands)is a long-married couple who are avoiding dealing with the recent discovery that Paul has an inoperable brain-tumour. Instead of facing the situation, they carry on a squabble over a romance Paul had 25 years earlier.
Mildred (Ellen Burstyn) is an attractive widow with a gay son, Mark (Jay Mohr). Mark has AIDS and is in the hospital, dying.
Gracie (Madeleine Stowe) is married, but having an affair with the priest, Roger (Anthony Edwards), for her the relationship is only physical, but for him it means something more.
Trent (Jon Stewart) is in love with Meredith (Gillian Anderson) but she rejects him at first, because she has a relationship-phobia, and believes he is "too good to be true".
Joan (Angelina Jolie) is a brashly aggressive aspiring actress with alcohol problems, who puts the moves on Keenan (Ryan Philippe) a solitary young man she meets in a disco, he rebuffs her advances but they develop a special friendship, and later he confesses that he has got AIDS.
Hugh (Dennis Quaid)is a haunted barfly who goes from club to club regaling sympathetic strangers with a different sob story in every watering whole.
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