- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Uca
- DVD Release Date: 23 Jan 2006
- Run Time: 127 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000BTIPR0
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 44,413 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Reviled by critics and largely ignored by moviegoers when released in 1999, Random Hearts is a pox on the reputations of Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas and director Sydney Pollack, but it doesn't entirely deserve its lowly fate. The movie's lugubriously paced and its repressed passions are dulled under the weight of relentless melancholy, but Pollack deserves credit for defying the Hollywood Zeitgeist with a mature, substantial film about the power of betrayal to reach beyond the grave.
Ford plays a Washington, DC detective; Scott Thomas is a Congresswoman in the midst of a re-election campaign. When their spouses die in a plane crash, the cop is convinced they'd been having an affair, and his obsessive, masochistic quest for the painful truth draws him closer to the Congresswoman despite the mutual risks to their careers and domestic privacy. While she hides behind a façade of denial, his agonised investigation makes him simultaneously unappealing (a risk Ford may have taken as a challenge), sympathetic and sadly compelling.
Pollack takes his own chances by keeping everything so relentlessly downbeat, but anyone receptive to the story will find that Random Hearts is a subtly rewarding study of tormented adults who've discovered too late the weaknesses of their seemingly stable marriages. It's anything but cheerful, and a subplot involving a corrupt cop (Dennis Haysbert) is a formulaic distraction. But Random Hearts provides welcome relief from dramas that flirt with emotional anguish without delving into its deeper consequences. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Love Betrayed,
By The Last Crusader (Cumbria, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Random Hearts [DVD] (DVD)
If you are under 40 and have not experienced the 'Golden September' of married love then this film is not for you.
This is a very serious film showing the pain of a husband trying to understand both the loss of his wife in an aircraft accident and the subsequent realisation that she was also having an adulterous affair. The film develops slowly and is about 20 minutes too long but you will be rewarded for watching every minute. This film will leave you angry and sad but enriched nevertheless.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
From RANDOM HEARTS to BETRAYAL,
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This review is from: Random Hearts [DVD] [1999] (DVD)
Kristin Scott Thomas is at the Comedy these days, Emma in Pinter's BETRAYAL: A woman crushed by her husband who finds in his best friend's admiration the impetus to become the best friend's lover... told backward, from the death of love to the proposition. I saw a performance on Monday. Wonderful work.
And this afternoon, on Channel 5, RANDOM HEARTS. Thomas' stillness works beautifully in BETRAYAL. I'm not good enough for the man I married, she sadly acknowledges; but I'm good enough for you, for you, you give me and my life meaning... until, of course, she asks her lover to leave his wife ("Impossible", he replies), and we watch her crumple -- so painful! I can imagine Scott Thomas easily, fully, as a woman so cuffed and abused by her husband that she barely dares to speak. As the congresswoman in RANDOM HEARTS, though: No. Who can't sympathise with Bill Clinton, his nose and other bits rubbed into the Ueberkompetenz of Hillary in his bed every night? Plump soft giggly enraptured Monica... a change is as good as a rest, eh, Bill? The stillness, the passivity of Scott Thomas... Not for, not in, someone in politics, not even with a daughter's interests ("She idolised her father!") as the stalking-horse behind which the mother wants to hide. Mis-casting, mis-acting? Harrison Ford is his usual avatar, testosterone-with-a-brush-cut, rolled out on casters to mouth his lines. I puzzled over the title for a while. The sorrow that adultery, that the craving for romance, brings into one's own life and into those of others -- are they, can they be, worth all the heartbreak, the doubt and incredulity and shame, that these choices of selfishness inflict? What are the reasons that we stray? Pascal tells us: Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. This film says: The heart has no reasons for behaving as it does. The heart loves, and strikes out to hurt, at random. A film, then, with mature and complicated ideas, and praiseworthy ones. Wonderful occasion for a film, grand chance to watch KST, valuable to me as a window into what she, the actress, can and couldn't do. Certainly worth having watched. Not worth averring that I'd watch it again...
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A refreshingly human film,
By A Customer
This review is from: Random Hearts [DVD] [1999] (DVD)
OK, so this film is slow and doesn't have much chearful to say, but it made me smile many times just with its portrayal of the layers of complexity of human relationships. One for those that have lost someone special and gradually come to realise that maybe they weren't so perfect after all. Oh, and Kristin Scott-Thomas is as bewitching as ever. If she played her cards right, she could have me.RL.
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