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Random Hearts (1999)

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Reviews Counted:87

Fresh:13

Rotten:74

Average Rating:4/10

Consensus: Even Harrison Ford could not save the dull plot and the slow pacing of the movie.

Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins

Genre: Dramas

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...

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]

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

Starring: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack, Charles S. Dutton

Director: Sydney Pollack

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

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Reviews for Random Hearts

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

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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A failure of a romantic drama.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/27/08
Channel 4 Film
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A kind of thriller/drama/romance that has an interesting idea and doesn't know where to go with it.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

The heat generated by these two attractive stars barely rises above room temperature.

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
01/01/00
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek

Random Hearts is a crawling 2-hour, 11-minute yawn of a misfire for Harrison Ford.

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01/01/00
Todd Anthony
Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Sydney Pollack directs with a risk-free style that's borderline dull.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

Random Hearts, a film that sits on the screen like a bump on a log for a very long 131 minutes, a running time that's filled mostly with excruciatingly long, silent pauses.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Harrison Ford does some of his best work ever in Sydney Pollack's marvelous new thriller, Random Hearts.

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01/01/00
David L. Beck
David L. Beck
San Jose Mercury News

Pollack appears to have taken lessons from Martin Brest about how to irritate and bore viewers with endless pauses in conversations.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Random Hearts is disappointing mostly because it didn't have to get this absurd.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
01/01/00
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

Subdued, laborious.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
01/01/00
Philip Booth
Philip Booth
Orlando Weekly

Ford gives such a stoic, straight-faced performance that he borders on being dull.

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01/01/00
Christopher Brandon
Christopher Brandon
TNT's Rough Cut

Part love story, part drama and wholly unintelligible mess.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
01/01/00
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

When all is said and done, Random Hearts proves to be a bona fide disaster.

Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | comment Comment
01/01/00
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers

This is perhaps the worst two and a half hours I have spent in a movie theatre all year...and I've seen a lot of really bad movies.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Brundage
James Brundage
Filmcritic.com

There's a vital spark missing from the core of the tepid Random Hearts.

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01/01/00
Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe

Passionless and predictable!

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Nick Carter
Nick Carter
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The score is an irritating jazz collection which seldom, if ever, fits the film's somber mood.

Full Review Source: Norman Transcript | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jim Chastain
Jim Chastain
Norman Transcript

There are some good moments that take an honest look at the aftermath of both infidelity and the loss of a loved one. Too bad these moments are too often lost in the clutter.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Erik Childress
Erik Childress
eFilmCritic.com

There's a lot of satisfaction in seeing two stars given this much time and space to examine a complex relationship.

Full Review Source: Mr. Showbiz | comment Comment
01/01/00
Cody Clark
Cody Clark
Mr. Showbiz
 
 
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