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Random Hearts (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 85 Fresh: 13  Rotten:72 Average Rating: 4/10
 
Consensus: Even Harrison Ford could not save the dull plot and the slow pacing of the movie.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins

Synopsis: Dutch Van Den Broeck, a sergeant in the Internal Affairs Division of the Washington, D.C. police department, and Kay Chandler, a New Hampshire congresswoman running for re-election, know about trust. Their careers depend on it. Their marriages are founded on it. Or so they thought. When an...

Dutch Van Den Broeck, a sergeant in the Internal Affairs Division of the Washington, D.C. police department, and Kay Chandler, a New Hampshire congresswoman running for re-election, know about trust. Their careers depend on it. Their marriages are founded on it. Or so they thought. When an airplane carrying Dutch’s wife Peyton and Kay’s husband Cullen crashes into the Chesapeake Bay, leaving no survivors, it marks just the beginning of a mystery that will not only lead Dutch and Kay to disturbing and shocking information about their spouses, but bring these strangers together in an unlikely romance.

In the aftermath of the crash, pieces of startling information come to light—Cullen and Peyton were sitting side by side on the plane, traveling on "Mr. and Mrs." tickets and carrying identical keys in their pockets. Grief-stricken spouses Dutch and Kay—a pair of opposites from widely dissimilar backgrounds and with very contradictory temperaments—are now thrown together, bonded by this mutual betrayal, to unlock the truth behind the secret that threatens to destroy them.

Dutch, a policeman to the core, investigates. Kay, left with a teenage daughter to protect and a campaign to run, doesn’t want to know any more than she absolutely has to. As clues lead from the gritty streets of D.C. to the romance of Miami’s beaches, both the cop and the congresswoman are caught in an upheaval of misplaced lust and rage, laying bare not only the details of their spouses’ clandestine affair, but their own awkward and painful feelings. Out of the ruins of their shattered marriages, this pair of random hearts forms a volatile new union. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack

Director: Sydney Pollack
Screenwriter: Kurt Luedtke
Producer: Marykay Powell

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Release:

Feb 29, 2000

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A failure of a romantic drama.

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05/27/08
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This might have been tailor-made by director Pollack to ease Ford into more straightforwardly romantic territory.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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A kind of thriller/drama/romance that has an interesting idea and doesn't know where to go with it.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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It's a chick flick, and my chick fell asleep during it.

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12/31/05
John Venable
Supercala.com
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My God! What happened to Sydney Pollack?

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12/06/05
Ron Wells
Film Threat
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Kristin Scott Thomas's elegant femininity contrasts perfectly with Harrison Ford's bruised machismo in this mature romantic drama.

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04/28/05
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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I am trying to remember what Random Hearts is about, but during the film I was transfixed by Harrison Ford's earring.

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12/17/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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Sydney Pollack directs with a risk-free style that's borderline dull.

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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly
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A nice showcase for Thomas's talent, and it's a slight departure for Ford, which makes it more enjoyable than watching him punch people out on an airplane.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online
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It resembles the wreckage of the downed plane more than a tale of redemptive romance.

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04/03/02
Paula Nechak
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Looks more like a case of random minds.

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03/22/02
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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Wants to be less of a trite star vehicle and more of a serious, contemplative drama.

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03/07/02
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine
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...guaranteed to weary even the most devoted Harrison Ford fan.

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04/06/01
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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02/27/01
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk
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4/10

The trailer made it look like it was going to be interesting. It isn't.

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01/01/01
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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Too long and overwrought for even the most romantically inclined.

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01/01/00
E! Online
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Sydney Pollack has made an interesting and engrossing film in Random Hearts.

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01/01/00
Arthur Lazere
culturevulture.net
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Random Hearts seems like a promising vehicle for the extraordinary talents of Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.

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01/01/00
Bob Thomas
Associated Press
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Director Sydney Pollack has crafted a sad but fascinating film, based on the novel by Warren Adler.

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01/01/00
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
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Ford gives such a stoic, straight-faced performance that he borders on being dull.

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01/01/00
Christopher Brandon
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