Random Hearts

Random Hearts (English Random Hearts) is an American film drama from the year 1999. Was directed by Sydney Pollack, the screenplay by Kurt Luedtke and Darryl Ponicsan based on a novel by Warren Adler. The main roles were played by Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Action

The wife of the Washington, D.C. make policemen William Van Den Broeck (Harrison Ford) dies in a plane crash. Van Den Broeck finds out that she accompanied her husband of Kay Chandler ( Kristin Scott Thomas), a member of the U.S. Congress and is on the verge of re-election. Van Den Broeck is to investigate further and finds that his wife and the husband had an affair.

Chandler looks at the research of Van Den Broeck first as a nuisance. She meets him in a bar and pointed out to him that they - unlike Van Den Broeck - was at the center of media attention. Van Den Broeck is surprised that he recognized as a policeman, the lies of the people immediately, but the affair his wife could not remember. At the time of marriage he was happy, says William. After leaving the bar, Chandler is randomly photographed from a political supporters, she is worried about the fact that even Van Den Broeck was to be seen in the photo. She brings him home in her car, in the car, William and Kay kiss suddenly.

The daughter of Chandler, a teenager who asks about the affair of her father, she mitkriegte. Later William Kay calls you and tells his answering machine about their concerns. She says the media interest would subside, she would not run for the next parliamentary term. Kay and William meet at the edge of a campaign event, pretend in front of other people, they would hardly know.

Later, Kay found on the windshield of her car an invitation Williams in his hut in the wilderness. They accepted the invitation and spent a night of love with William. The next day he asks her if she would want to have the past life again, if that were possible. She replies that she had already written off their marriage ended by the disaster.

The media learned about the relationship of William and Kay. To escape the media interest waived Chandler on the run again.

Reviews

TV Movie 26/1999 described the film as a very sensitive, the action as unusual. Der Spiegel 51/1999 gave the film pathos and pseudo- wisdom before, filmdienst 26/1999 which features every imaginable soap opera clichés and prolixity. TV Today 26/1999 criticized the representation of the actor as wooden.

Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune criticized in his opinion weak screenplay; Desson Thomson commented in the Washington Post, the film would have almost all the mistakes you could commit in Hollywood. Susan Stark wrote in the Detroit News, the film would strain the patience of the audience.

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