Playing by Heart

Life and love in LA ( Playing by Heart ) is an American film drama by Willard Carroll from the year 1998. The main roles were played by, among others, Sean Connery, Angelina Jolie, Ryan Phillippe and Dennis Quaid.

Action

Joan phoned from a phone booth in a nightclub to make up with her boyfriend. It needs change, Keenan gives her that. Keenan and Joan meet again and come a little closer, Keenan remains aloof. To lure him out of the reserve, Joan pretends to steal her car, which does not help her.

When Joan Keenan urges to be open, it criticized their alcohol consumption. She immediately spits out their drink and throws the glass on the floor. Keenan said that he was together with a previously addicted to heroin, and AIDS - sick woman who died. Also Keenan is HIV -positive. He first thinks he is likely to never fall in love, what Joan disappointed. Later he decides but for a relationship.

In the film, the relationships of other pairs are shown. The suffering from a brain tumor, dying Paul is married to Hannah for 40 years. He had an affair, which is why Hannah makes him again allegations 25 years ago.

Gracie and Roger meet regularly in a hotel room while Hugh, husband of Gracie, slips into fictional roles and long conversations into bars. Gracie tells Roger how passionate their relationship with Hugh was in the beginning and how empty it has become.

In Chicago, far away from Los Angeles, Mark is located in a hospital and I know that he will leave no longer alive this. For the first time in his life he leads long, honest conversations with his mother. Initially, both difficult to do with it, but soon find a liking to the new openness.

The theater director Meredith arranges to meet with the architect Trent, but she is afraid of a lasting relationship. After the second meeting, she enters into a relationship with Trent. She spends with him one night, in the morning she called and asked to attend the funeral of her ex - husband. During their absence, Trent takes care of her home and on her dog.

At the end turns out that Joan, Gracie and Meredith are daughters of Paul and Hannah. The family gets together to renew their marriage vows as Paul and Hannah. Hugh ask Gracie if the common marriage would also hold 40.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews, the film is a modern dramatic ensemble comedy that would show the many faces of love. He praised highly the illustrations of Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands and Gillian Anderson as well as the dialogues.

Roger Ebert praised in the Chicago Sun - Times January 22, 1999, the screen presence of Angelina Jolie. The characters in the film he described as softies, which he explained with the contemporary trend in the cinema, to lure the audience with the awakening of feelings. The large number of figures would make it impossible for all to perceive correctly.

Awards

Angelina Jolie won in 1998 the National Board of Review Award. Willard Carroll was nominated at the Berlinale in 1999 for the Golden Bear.

Background

The stars like Sean Connery and Gillian Anderson accepted salaries of $ 50,000, which allowed the financing of the film project. Connery said the script had " touched " him. After he agreed to first, agreed to other well-known performers.

The production cost of the film was estimated at 14 million U.S. dollars. He played in the cinemas of the United States an approximately 3.96 million U.S. dollars.

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