Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 14
A misfire from director Francis Ford Coppola.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 5
A misfire from director Francis Ford Coppola.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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After completing Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola initially planned for his next picture to be an intimate romantic musical shot on a low budget in Las Vegas. Three years later, One from the Heart had mushroomed into a big-budget spectacular, shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened Zoetrope Studio and costing a then-massive $27 million. The story concerns Hank (Frederick Forrest) and Franny (Terri Garr), a working-class couple living on the outskirts of Las Vegas; after five
Feb 12, 1982 Wide
Jan 27, 2004
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (14) | DVD (9)
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.
An interesting production but not a good movie.
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.
[An] often maligned, giddy, superlative romantic musical.
A playful, delightfully unfathomable piece of magic.
An integral piece of the oeuvre of one of America's great directors.
Razzle-dazzle gimmickry and photographic techniques dwarf the trivial story.
At times the project seems in danger of being scuppered by its own lavishness; the saving grace is a light heart.
Its head-over-heels excitement for the imagination, heritage and emotion that the movies can share with a viewer is the ultimate aphrodisia.
With more than 200 salaried employees on a 10-acre lot that included 9 soundstages, 34 editing suites, and a gigantic trailer that the mogul dubbed the Silver Fish, Coppola videotaped rehearsals in an effort to cut down on film costs. Alas...
... 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.
It's even worse now, when its perms and polyester mark it as dated as its sexual politics.
A 1982 curio about feeling, not the weighty machinations of plot... but one that offers only moments of studied amusement, not rapt absorption.
Gorgeous to look at, but kind of slow, but the cinematography is stunning, but it's fairly uneven, but that uneven-ness is photographed by Vittorio Storaro.I would also like to note that it's a crime that so much of Stararo's work isn't avaliable on blu-ray.
September 18, 2007Super Reviewer
I liked this movie for the most part, the story, sets, and songs go well together, but it could have been better.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
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