Heart Condition

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Heart Condition

R

1990

1h 40m

Mystery & Thriller

Comedy

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Racist police officer Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington), a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity (Chloe Webb). Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.

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Hal Hinson

Washington Post

01/01/2000

The film is caught somewhere between seriousness and cheesy exploitation.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

01/01/2000

2/4

The movie is all over the map, trying whatever seems to work at the moment.

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Juan Carlos Coto

Miami Herald

08/18/2021

2/4

The movie seems over a good half-hour before it ends and is forgotten even more quickly.

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Joe Leydon

The Moving Picture Show

12/28/2020

A surprisingly engaging action-comedy-fantasy that places greater emphasis on high-caliber acting than rapid-fire shootouts.

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Daniel Barnes

Dare Daniel

02/12/2019

1/5

A casually racist murder-mystery (minus the mystery) that was rejected by both audiences and critics due to a chaotic tone, insipid comedy beats and clunky action scenes set to slap-bass and scat-singing.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

11/12/2004

2/5

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Steve D

@RT35616104 02/24/2023

Plays bigotry for laughs while being too unpleasant for generate any.

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05/13/2021

It is a decent film with funny moments. Serious too. I like that it deals with serious racial tones head on. And the transformation on a deplorable racists into a semblance of a human being.

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10/20/2020

The writing is all over the place. I couldn't figure out what's the point with the story, it continuously changes focus (and genres). It's saving grace are the two leads (Washington and Hopkins), specially Bob Hopkins, he's incredible as always. But, nothing can make this a good film. I wouldn't recommend watching this film, but I did enjoy parts of it.

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02/14/2020

Funny hopeful orginal wholesomeness film.

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01/01/2018

Great movie, watched it many times, on VHS.

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09/20/2014

Surprised to see how lenient the reviews are... Yes these are two great actors but this is at best a mediocre movie. All over the place, can't decide what it's intended to be and too long. What a mess. Even great actors make mistakes sometimes!

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James D. Parriott

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Synopsis

Racist police officer Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington), a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity (Chloe Webb). Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.

Director: James D. Parriott
Producer: Steve Tisch
Screenwriter: James D. Parriott
Production Co: New Line Cinema
Rating: R
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 20, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.1M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Surround