One from the Heart (1982)
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Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 13 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus:
A misfire from director Francis Ford Coppola.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola directed this experimental musical about love in Las Vegas. Shot entirely at Coppola's Zoetrope Studios, the film stars Frederic Forrest (Hank) and Teri Garr (Frannie) as an unhappy couple breaking up on their five-year anniversary. Frannie is courted by a piano... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, Lainie Kazan
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Razzle-dazzle gimmickry and photographic techniques dwarf the trivial story.
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12/11/07
A hybrid musical romantic fantasy, lavishing giddy heights of visual imagination and technical brilliance onto a wafer-thin story of true love turned sour, then sweet.
12/11/07
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At times the project seems in danger of being scuppered by its own lavishness; the saving grace is a light heart.
01/26/06
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There's not a moment in One From the Heart when Mr. Coppola isn't after something romantic and glorious, something inexpressibly grand. At times, he even gets what he's after.
08/30/04
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... simultaneously ahead of its time and delightfully quaint, a simple romantic comedy that revels in the dreamy artifice of a meticulously re-created fantasy Las Vegas.
01/15/04
It's even worse now, when its perms and polyester mark it as dated as its sexual politics.
01/15/04
A 1982 curio about feeling, not the weighty machinations of plot... but one that offers only moments of studied amusement, not rapt absorption.
01/09/04
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If any film from the 1980s needs to be re-examined, it's Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart.
12/22/03
One From the Heart is aptly named. No one will mistake it for One From the Brain.
12/12/03
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While it was a fascinating filmmaking experiment in its day -- One From The Heart was initially released in 1982 -- it has not time-travelled very well.
12/05/03
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