Random Hearts
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Short description
Dutch Van Den Broeck, a sergeant in the internal affairs division of the Washington police, and Kay Chandler, a congresswoman campaigning for re-election, lose their spouses in the same plane crash. Going through their partners' belongings, the two strangers find keys that connect their spouses to each other, and the discovery points to an affair they knew nothing about. The pair, who share little beyond the loss, are drawn into learning the truth about the people they were married to.
Sydney Pollack directed the film, the fifteenth of the seventeen features he made, between Sabrina in 1995 and The Interpreter in 2005. Harrison Ford plays Dutch and Kristin Scott Thomas plays Kay, with Charles S. Dutton, Richard Jenkins, Dennis Haysbert and Pollack himself among the credited cast. Kurt Luedtke and Darryl Ponicsan wrote the screenplay, and Pollack produced with Marykay Powell.
Made for a budget of about 64 million dollars, the film took in roughly 75 million dollars worldwide, a modest return. On IMDb it holds a critics' rating of 4 out of 10 from 90 reviews, while on TMDB audiences give it 5.6 out of 10 from 434 votes. The two measures are not far apart, both placing the film below the middle of the scale.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place from September 10, 1998, to February 3, 1999.
- After the film's premiere, Harrison Ford vowed never to work with Sydney Pollack again.
- The only film in which Harrison Ford appears on screen with an earring (as he does in real life).
- The plane crash that begins the film looked so realistic that 40 people called emergency services to report the incident.
- During pre-production, the filmmakers contacted American Airlines requesting information about their rapid response rescue team called the “C.A.R.E. Team.” The airline refused to fulfill the request, not wanting its (in this case, its rescue services) to be associated with a film about a plane crash.
- The illuminated "Parkway Lanes" sign hadn't been lit for over 20 years and was only repaired for the filming.
- The film is based on a 1984 novel by Warren Adler (1927-2019), the rights to which were acquired shortly after the book's publication. However, a 15-year pause followed. In 1980, Dustin Hoffman was considered for the lead role, but he soon left the project because he disliked the early script drafts. By 1990, Kevin Costner was cast in the lead, and James L. Brooks was set to direct, though nothing came of it. Eventually, Harrison Ford and Sidney Pollack (1934-2008) became interested in the project as producer and director, respectively, and only then did things start to move forward.
- Warren Adler's 1984 novel, which served as the literary source for the film, told the story of a plane crash that occurred in January 1982 when a plane crashed into the Potomac River during takeoff from Washington National Airport.
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