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2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert
  • Directors: Sydney Pollack
  • Writers: Warren Adler, Darryl Ponicsan, Kurt Luedtke
  • Producers: Sydney Pollack, Marykay Powell, Ronald L. Schwary, Warren Adler
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 15 May 2000
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004S31T
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,308 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
DVD 9
German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.0 English German
Dolby Digital 5.0
Interactive Menus
3 Deleted Scenes
3 Trailers
Making Of
Feature Commentary
Filmography
Music Highlights
Outtakes
Arabic\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Swedish\Turkish


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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A refreshingly human film, 14 Nov 2000
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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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Random!, 15 May 2005
Well, what can I say, this film was 'random' to say the least. The romance between Harrison Ford and Kristen Scott Thomas seemed to just come out of the blue. There really didn't seem to be much of a build up to it...perhaps that was a good thing because I probably couldn't bear to watch an extra half hour of the film! I know Ford plays a cop in the film, but he must be pretty amazing to figure out in a ridiculously short amount of time that his wife had been having an affair, to figure out who she was having it with and to figure out the wife of the guy with whom Ford's wife was playing away with (that make any sense?) Anyway, I know its a film and I know we all expect plane crashes, discoveries of infidelity, blossoming romances and shootings to happen within the space of a couple of hours, blah blah, but seriously...this is a BAD film and does really takes the mick out of its audience if they expect us to appreciate such bad acting and a seriously poor effort at making the storyline work! You have been warned!
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Harrison Ford and Kristen Scott Thomas a great combination, 13 Feb 2001
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This review is from: Random Hearts [VHS] [1999] (VHS Tape)
Although lots of people hate this film I couldn't wait for it to be realeased on VHS. The acting is good and a very romantic film. The only thing that I didn't like was the end. What a let down. Who could resist Harrison Ford?
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4.0 out of 5 stars Random Hearts
I think this film deserves at least 4 stars. The plot is deep and intense and interesting. I definately enjoyed watching it. Kristin Scott-Thomas was the real star in this. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars how bad?
This has got to be the worst film of all time! As yet i still have no idea what the storyline actually was. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2000

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money on this third rate film.
It amazed me that Harrison Ford and Kristen Scott-Thomas could have involved themselves in a film so full of cliches. Read more
Published on 2 Jul 2000

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