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Playing by Heart
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Gillian Anderson, Sean Connery, Angelina
Jolie, Jay Mohr, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Quaid, Jon Stewart |
| MPAA Rated: |
R |
| Released By: |
Miramax Home Video |
| Kiddie Movie: |
They'd be bored. |
| Date Movie: |
It's a snuggle movie. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
Almost. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Nah. |
| Action: |
Nah. |
| Laughs: |
Some. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
Angelina Jolie in
a hair net and curlers. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
Here's a few, but
watch for them. "I cheated on my wife with her
brother." "Well if I have to wear a tux than she
has to wear a bra." "Hannah and Paul have asked
their family and friends to join them here today"... (at
about this point I blurted "Oh my God!") |
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Playing by Heart
A Movie/DVD Review |
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There I am, watching "Playing by Heart," a video with more
star names than, well, it has a lot of big star names, and I'm kinda
getting depressed and thinking to myself something like "and
this is why I'm in no hurry to find that someone special." Then
the ending comes and now I'm getting a little depressed because I'm
not in a hurry to find that someone special. Oh well.
"Playing by Heart" stars, in no particular order,
Anthony Edwards, Angelina Jolie (who looks incredible, even in a
hair net and curlers), Gillian Anderson (I think I will always like
her), Jay Mohr, Dennis Quaid, Madeleine Stow, Sean Connery, Ellen
Burstyn, Jon Stewart, Gena Rowlands, and Ryan Phillippe. It's not
easy to fully explain this movie except to say that it involves a
multitude of seemingly separate story lines that nicely come
together in the end.
Alright, that's confusing, so let's explain confuse you a little
more. The movie shows snippets in the lives of a bunch of couples.
You've got a mom comforting her dying son, you've got a dude working
lots of different women in bars by making up a lot of stories,
you've got a couple having affairs on their respective others but
just trying to keep their affair about sex, you've got a theater
director who has been hurt too many times and trying to push away
the architect who really just wants someone he can love for the rest
of his life, you've got a bar-loving girly who talks too much trying
to hook a dude who at first seems like an idiot for ignoring her.
And finally you've got an old couple coming to terms with their
love. I think that takes into account everyone. In those tales, at
least until near the end of the movie, you get the feeling that love
is a never-ending battle of sadness, but, and in pretty good credit
to the writers and such, there is hope for love.
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I was a little frustrated at this movie, knowing that somehow it
would all come together, at least I had hoped, because as the movie
went on I kinda felt that you could have almost made sixish
different movies based on the lives of these peoples. In doing so
the movie kind of dragged and a lot of times I was getting tired of
watching mom and the dying son hoping that finally Ryan would get
Angelina naked. Sadly, that never happened, but there was a reason
which made me feel a little bad for thinking his character was an
idiot for not going after such a score. I was also amazed that Jon
Stewart kept pursuing Gillian Anderson, the "afraid to get her
heart broken" again chick, but Jon kept trying. And I guess, in
the end, the moral of the movie is that love only survives if you
try.
Kind of slow at spots and definitely more of a chick flick than a
dude flick, but it might be a nice film to nuzzle on the couch with
a bottle of wine. In the end I give "Playing with Hearts"
3 stars out of 5.
That's if for this one! I'm The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!! |
