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| Random Hearts [Region 2] | ![Random Hearts [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/217B9T7D4JL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert
Category: DVD
Buy New: $23.18
Avg. Customer Rating:  (105 reviews)
Sales Rank: 132568
Format: Pal
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 133 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 0328808
EAN: 4030521288089
ASIN: B00004TZU8
Theatrical Release Date: October 8, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com
Reviled by critics and largely ignored by moviegoers when released in 1999, Random Hearts is a pox on the reputations of Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, and director Sydney Pollack, but it doesn't entirely deserve its lowly fate. The movie's lugubriously paced and its repressed passions are dulled under the weight of relentless melancholy, but Pollack deserves credit for defying the Hollywood Zeitgeist with a mature, substantial film about the power of betrayal to reach beyond the grave. Ford plays a Washington, D.C. detective; Scott Thomas is a Congresswoman in the midst of a re-election campaign. When their spouses die in a plane crash, the cop is convinced they'd been having an affair, and his obsessive, masochistic quest for the painful truth draws him closer to the Congresswoman despite the mutual risks to their careers and domestic privacy. While she hides behind a facade of denial, his agonized investigation makes him simultaneously unappealing (a risk Ford may have taken as a challenge), sympathetic, and sadly compelling. Pollack takes his own chances by keeping everything so relentlessly downbeat, but anyone receptive to the story will find that Random Hearts is a subtly rewarding study of tormented adults who've discovered too late the weaknesses of their seemingly stable marriages. It's anything but cheerful, and a subplot involving a corrupt cop (Dennis Haysbert) is a formulaic distraction. But Random Hearts provides welcome relief from dramas that flirt with emotional anguish without delving into its deeper consequences. --Jeff Shannon
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 Morosely silly January 3, 2009
Two people find out their spouses were cheating, then the jilted ones get together. You'd think this never happened in the history of mankind, from the relentlessly grim way that Harrison Ford plays it. You'll laugh every time someone calls him "Dutch." I liked the relaxed soundtrack, though. Why this has to go on for over two hours, I don't know. It's silly soap opera to the core, but it's not the worst movie of its ilk ever made.
 Excellent movie December 21, 2008
This is an excellent movie starring Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas and Sydney Pollack. It's a little slow only because of what is transpring...but the story line is excellent. I had been looking for this DVD and found it on Amazon. Good movie...good price!
 Random Hearts December 8, 2008
The DVD came on a timely basis. I just had a chance to watch it yesterday, 12/6/08. The DVD had a bad place about half way through the movie. I guess that's to be expected with a used copy. I will think twice about ordering used in the future.
How to Tell That Harrison Ford is Alive September 14, 2007
You can tell that Harrison Ford is alive because his lips occasionally move. His face looks like it is carved in stone throughout the movie, no smiles, no sorrow, no happiness, just a death mask. His wife, and a congresswoman's husband die together in a plane crash. It turns out that they were having an affair. The bereft husband (Ford) and wife (Thomas) sort of fall in love. You sit through this movie constantly wondering why anyone would fall for the wooden Harrison Ford. Don't get me wrong, I like Harrison Ford, but in this flick his affectless performance makes John Wayne seem like Jerry Lewis.
So there you have it, a totally uninteresting romance. This is one movie where you do not see the newly in love couple romping through a flowery meadow. In fact it would be more likely to have Scott take Ford to a mortuary and have him embalmed.
Realizing that the audience will probably doze off from time to time, the director periodically livens things up by having Ford, a police officer, punch somebody out or threaten to kill someone. So that's it, a policeman with total face paralysis takes up with a Republican (in case that matters to you) Congresswoman and they do things together. What things? Well you know, sit on a park bench and eat sandwiches, fondle each other in a car, ransack the apartment where their ex spouses would have their trysts. Finally, the movie doesn't end; it just dies.
Oh, I might add that if you go to the Rotten Tomatoes web site you'll find that only 13% of the top critics found Random Hearts to be an interesting movie. I tend to agree with Todd McCarthy of Variety when he says, "Laborious, remote and strangely uninvolving."
 Private life does not mix with politics September 2, 2007
Politics and sex life do not work together very well in the USA as soon it gets off the very straight direct family-oriented lackluster public image politicians are supposed to respect down to the very last dot on the line. A supercop in Washington DC and a female representative in Congress from the state of New Hampshire get together due to the accident that drowns their spouses in a plane crash. This adultery on the side of the husband of the representative will ruin her life and career and the purely accidental and transient relation between the two survivors will become the only question that will seem important for the press. Something is wrong in this country and it has to be healed fast. The film shows the situation, its contradictions and the passion that will in fact be nothing but solace in a stressful moment with tact and great acting, with delicacy and an apology for the narrow-mindedness of the press and political system of a country which is supposed to be a democracy and does not guarantee the privacy of the private life of its politicians. That kind of wild hunting from some journalists is criminal and ten years ago it cost the life of Princess Diana under a bridge in Paris. That kind of trashy journalism should be outlawed and severely punished by our courts. The film seems clear about it: freedom still has a lot of battles to fight and win in our countries. The end of history is far from being close at hand.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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