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Playing By Heart

Sean Connery (Actor), Ryan Phillippe (Actor), Willard Carroll (Director) Rated:
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Genre Romance
Format Multiple Formats, Widescreen, NTSC, Color
Contributor Angelina Jolie, Ellen Burstyn, Willard Carroll, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 48 minutes
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A sexy romantic comedy about modern couples coming together in funny and unexpected ways, Playing By Heart features an amazing cast of hot stars!

Paul (Sean Connery, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and Hannah discover that even after 40 years of marriage they can still learn some very surprising things about each other. Meredith is a serious theatre director who isn't looking for a relationship—but one is looking for her in the form of the funny, persistent Trent. Then there's Joan (Angelina Jolie, The Tourist) and Keenan (Ryan Phillippe, MacGruber), young people searching for love in an L.A. club scene where the rules of dating seem to change every night. A witty, charming motion picture that critics loved—you too will fall for this seductive treat!

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches; 0.35 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Willard Carroll
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Widescreen, NTSC, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 48 minutes
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Sean Connery, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Quaid, Angelina Jolie, Ellen Burstyn
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Miramax Echo Bridge
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0050UEVNM
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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SebeLov111
5.0 out of 5 stars You Must See
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2021
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Once again I am Angelina Jolie in this movie no doubt. This is a must see movie. This is my all time number one favorite movie. This movie has a storyline for people who are 20 and in college to senior citizens. There is something in this movie for everyone. There are sensitive topics so I wouldn’t let anyone under a certain age watch this. This movie shows you that not all love stories are perfect but this movie will show you without the thorns there is no rose! I hope you enjoy! Check out the cast. Need I say more?
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Richard Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars American Style Love Stories
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020
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The is a movie about long-term and beginning ways that men and women love each other, in America. I say "in America" because it struck me that in many other countries marriage could be quite different; example, arranged marriages. I have been around for quite a while, and all of the stories reminded me of my relationships. I guess a movie is very successful if it arouses a lot of emotion in the person watching.
The cast was incredible, including many of the most desirable men and women of that time. The acting was exceptional and felt realistic. You cared about them. In a few scenes, unusual things happened, but I guess not too unlikely. I sometimes get annoyed when people act very irrationally, but that's life.
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Mibo
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique, Creative, Well Done
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2006
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While this movie wasn't deep-arguably that is-it was creative, unique, and quite realistic. If you pay close attention to the dialogue it can be predictable especially if you like to figure things out before they happen. Willard Carroll left just enough room to make you wonder and then certain revelations-unless you're out of it-are expected and not surprising. The characters were believable and the acting by the entire cast was nothing short of sensational.

If you get confused easily, stick it out, comes together very nicely in the end.

Side note-two things:

1. How excellent that Gillian Anderson had the ability to show range. Don't get me wrong, love Dana Scully, I do, however, she is an unsung hero when it comes to this art. (See her in Masterpiece Theater's Bleak House.)

2. It is in my opinion that most comedians stick to comedy and there are but a few when they transition or give drama a try do an excellent job. Having said that hats off to Jon Stewart. His performance was more than respectable.
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Rahul S.
5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Rom-Com
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2017
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Why has no one heard of this film?!

I watched it for the first time in an Interpersonal Communications course I took in college, and it's a light, sweet, refreshing take on a romantic comedy, a genre that I'm usually not the target demographic for. The cast is phenomenal, featuring Angelina Jolie, Ryan Phillipe, a young Jon Stewart, as well as legends like Gillian Anderson, Dennis Quaid and Sean Connery. It follows a number of different storylines, and while you can certainly see a lot of "90s" in it, the movie holds up well, and is still very quotable.

I always enjoy the opportunity to share this movie because so few people I know have heard of it.
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E.J.
5.0 out of 5 stars Playing by Heart - A True Hidden Gem!
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2015
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One of my favorite movies that most people have never heard of!

This is a sweet but edgy movie that ties together multiple relationships.

The cast is beyond stellar: Angelina Jolie, Ryan Phillippe, Sean Connery, Gena Rowland's, Jon Stewart (yes, that Jon Stewart), Gillian Anderson, Madeline Stowe, & Dennis Quade just to name a few. I'm sure after looking at the cast you're wondering, how have I never heard of this movie?

This movie is also incredible quotable (which makes it so fun to rewatch) - some gems... "My mind has an endless capacity for useless information." "I'll have a martini extra dry. 3 olives not 2 - nutritional value. "

It's a bit 90's, but still holds up rather well. It's worth taking a chance on this one just for the cast alone!
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Sonia
4.0 out of 5 stars Stellar Cast and Poignant storylines...You'll fall in love
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2000
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If I could meet a lump collective of famous people, a great place to start would be the cast of Playing By Heart. I don't remember hearing "boo" about this movie. Nada, nuttin, zilch. Every single character is portrayed by a famous actor. And quite well I might add, I really enjoyed the depth brought to each performance.
Playing By Heart is a relationship movie. It's also billed as a romantic comedy on the video jacket. I beg to differ. It's a drama if I've ever seen one. Playing By Heart deals with some very complex relationship issues in a direct, honest manner. The intensity of the relationship formats is engrossing.
The movie is set up in a variety of pairings, not all of which are romantically linked. The relationships that are romantic, represent a wide spectrum of ages, and stages in such a relationship.
We meet Hannah (Gena Rowlands) and Paul (Sean Connery). They've been married forty years. Their relationship is in a state of flux almost from the very start of the movie. Their story is evidence that, even after all those years of marriage, there are things to discover about your spouse. The notion that Paul might still be carrying a torch for an old flame is a bone of contention between he and Hannah. One example of their combativeness is when Paul remarks, "It's been almost twenty-four hours since we traded barbs. We don't want to get rusty do we?"
Then there's Joan (Angelina Jolie) and Keenan (Ryan Phillippe). They are the young, wild twenty-somethings who discover each other in the L.A. club scene. Keenan is withdrawn and anti-social where Joan is boisterous and the poster child for high drama, her every life event intensely scrutinized for anyone who will listen. Joan keeps doing her level best to work her way into Keenan's life while he puts forth the same effort pushing her away. At one point, he finally tells her, "This isn't anything. This will never be anything." Meredith (Gillian Anderson), on the other hand, pushes men away because of a long history of being burned in relationships, or as she puts it, "scalded repeatedly". She is a theatre director who has been keeping herself consumed with work, but when she pulls a bookshelf down on herself at the library, an architect named Trent uses the opportunity to ask her out on a date.
He maintains that, "I'm not just asking you out to dinner as a preemptive strike against litigation." Despite her steadfastness to the contrary, she accepts, saying, "Anyone who can say preemptive strike against litigation with a straight face deserves a dinner companion."
Theirs becomes a rollercoaster relationship of her pushing him away and him not accepting her attempts to shut him out. Meredith makes some interesting observations about the dating process that anyone who is dating or has ever dated may find refreshingly honest. So much of the dating process is calculated artificiality. She even admits to Trent, that before their first date, she had been on the phone with her sister coming up with a psychological profile for him.
Perhaps the most intense relationship in the movie is a mother-son pairing. Mildred (Ellen Burstyn) is the mother to a gay son, Mark (Jay Mohr). He is in the hospital dying of, it is assumed, AIDS. His final wishes are to start their relationship over, being honest with each other and sharing some of their thoughts with each other. She, and the rest of Mark's family, had been in denial about his being gay, and he doesn't want his last days to be full of her denial about his dying. Some powerful and moving scenes between them.
As a mother with sons, the most moving moment was when he asked her to tell him a story. He wants to hear the last part of "Goodnight Moon". My boys have this book. We read it quite often. The thought of speaking those words to one of them as they lay dying in my arms tore through my heart. She also reflects on the time she was pregnant with him. These are instances that all you moms out there will be hard-pressed not to have tears streaming down your cheeks.
Among the other characters are Gracie (Madeleine Stowe) and Roger (Anthony Edwards), who are both married and having an affair. There is also Hugh (Dennis Quaid), who spends his nights going from bar to bar, telling tall tales of woe to any woman who will listen to him. Their relationships are evidence of the understanding one tries to have about what they are doing and why.
Why do some people love each other? How does it happen? Joan considers something a friend had told her once. "Talking about love is like dancing about architecture." She maintains that, however true that statement is, she's still going to try to talk about love anyway. On the flip side, Paul recalls the advice Joan had given their children about falling in love. "The wonderful thing about falling in love is you learn everything about that person and so quickly. And if it's true love, then you start to see yourself through their eyes. And it brings out the best in you. It's almost as if you're falling in love with yourself."
Playing By Heart is honest and genuine. Some of the honesty manifests itself in some big-time swearing and sexual innuendo, hence the "R" rating. It's a drama in the sense that relationships are dramas with light-hearted comedic moments to equal the playing field. It's about falling in love. It's about not wanting to fall in love but falling in love anyway.
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Julie B
5.0 out of 5 stars This movie never gets old for me
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2022
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This is one of the very few movies I enjoy watching over and over. It holds up as well as when I first saw it years ago. Great ensemble cast and good storylines. The seemingly individual stories are related but you aren't clued in until the end.
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Luluizm
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this
Reviewed in Canada on January 28, 2023
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Already lost this DVD a couple years back. Bought it in 2000, I think. Wrote this in 2023 cause I have nothing better to do.
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Happy End Bücher - Nicole Gauert
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein, heute noch, toller Episodenfilm der Herz und Kopf anspricht
Reviewed in Germany on September 16, 2020
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Paul und Hannah feiern bald ein rundes Ehejubiläum, das sie auch mit Freunden und der Familie groß feiern wollen. Doch ihr Liebesglück wird überschattet. Zum einen, weil Paul schwer erkrankt ist und zum anderen weil Paul sich einst in eine andere verliebte, während er schon mit Hannah zusammen war. Ausgerechnet vor den Feierlichkeiten kommt es zum Streit…

Die Theaterregisseurin Meredith, hält sich nicht nur für schwierig sondern auch für beziehungsunfähig. Schon so oft wurde sie von den Männern enttäuscht. Als sie den charmanten Trent kennen lernt, will sie ihn eigentlich gleich abwimmeln, als er um ein Date bittet, doch irgendwie gelingt es ihm, sie umzustimmen. Wird Meredith sich überwinden können und Trent eine Chance geben?

Hugh hat eine Mission. Jeden Abend geht er in eine andere Bar oder ein Lokal und erzählt Frauen, die einsam am Tisch sitzen, traurige, erfundene Geschichten über sein Leben. Warum nur?

Gracie und Roger sind nicht glücklich in ihren Ehen und fühlen sich einsam. Daher haben sie sich miteinander auf eine unverbindliche Affäre eingelassen. Doch insgeheim trauert Gracie den besseren Zeiten mit ihrem Ehemann nach…

Mildreds Sohn Mark liegt im AIDS Endstadium im Krankenhaus. Obwohl sie sich nie mit Marks Homosexualität arrangieren konnte, liebt sie ihren Sohn über alles und eilt zu ihm ans Krankenbett, um in den letzten Tagen bei ihm zu sein. Mutter und Sohn, die so viele Geheimnisse voreinander hatten, gehen nun ehrlich miteinander um…

Die angehende Schauspielerin Jojo liebt es in die Disco zu gehen und zu feiern. Doch in der Liebe ist ihr bislang kein Glück beschienen gewesen. Durch einen Zufall lernt sie, während sie mit ihrem Ex telefoniert, den schüchternen Keenan kennen der ihr, freundlich wie er ist, das nötige Kleingeld fürs Telefonat zusteckt. Jojo revanchiert sich mit einem Drink, den sie Keenan spendiert und quatscht munter los, wie ihr das Mundwerk gewachsen ist. Als sie ihn jedoch darüber ausfragen möchte, was er macht, weist er sie freundlich aber bestimmt ab. So leicht lässt sich Jojo jedoch nicht abwimmeln, denn sie mag den attraktiven Mann mit den blauen Haaren. Ist von Keenans Seite mehr drin, als nur eine platonische Freundschaft?

Leben und Lieben in L.A. , ist eine Art Episodenfilm, der bereits im Jahre 1998 in die Cinemas kam, als diese Filme, zu denen auch beispielsweise „Tatsächlich Liebe“ gehört, sehr gefragt waren; allerdings war dieser eher ein Flop an den Kinokassen, was ich absolut nicht nachvollziehen kann.

Es werden also, im ständigen Wechsel, verschiedene Paare und ihre momentanen Lebens- und Liebessituationen gezeigt und die Macher dieses Films haben sich dazu in Sachen Cast nicht lumpen lassen. Alles was damals Rang und Namen hatte, wurde verpflichtet. Selbst Sean Connery, der Paul spielt, ist hier mit von der Partie. Seine Story und die über Jojo und Keenan fand ich, wenn ich ehrlich bin, am besten, weil na ja, sie ging halt mitten ins Herz. Aber überzeugt euch selbst.
Angelina Jolie spielt ihren Part perfekt, genauso, wie auch der damalige Mädelsschwarm Ryan Phillippe seiner Figur sehr viel Sensibilität einhauchen konnte. Wenn man schließlich Keenans Geheimnis erfährt, ist man verständlicherweise betroffen; sein Geständnis bricht einem beinahe das Herz- aber die Filmemacher haben hier ein, wie ich finde, tollen Abschluss geschaffen und die beiden sind supersüß zusammen.

Tiefgang hat auch die Story über den aidskranken Mark und seine Mutter, die mich sehr berühren konnte. Doch ich fand, hier hätten die Filmemacher die Handlung ein wenig verlängern müssen. Sie wirkte leider zu schnell und oberflächlich erzählt und hatte doch so viel Potential. Die Story über die kratzbürstige, schwierige Meredith lag mir nicht so, weil ich mir nicht erklären konnte, was eigentlich ihr Problem mit Trent ist, der einfach nur supersympathisch und vor allem empathisch rüberkommt. Und auch Gracie, Rogers und Hughs Geschichte, fand ich etwas schwächer erzählt.

Aber stark fand ich sämtliche Dialoge des Films. Die nötige Sensibilität, lebenskluge Weisheiten und ausreichend Tiefgang sorgen dafür, dass dieser Film viel mehr bietet, als nur eine leichte, gute Unterhaltung. Natürlich, es wird nicht nur geliebt und gelebt in L.A. sondern auch gelitten. Wenn man diesbezüglich keine Berührungsängste hat und sich auch auf etwas Drama gut einlassen kann, wird man sich bestimmt so gut unterhalten fühlen von dem Film, wie ich.
Erfrischend ist es übrigens, dass es 1998 noch keine Handys für jedermann gab. Hier wird also noch, ganz old school, telefoniert, wenn man sich etwas zu sagen hat, was positiv entschleunigend wirkt. ;-)

Kurz gefasst: Ein, heute noch, toller Episodenfilm der Herz und Kopf anspricht. Und die Liebesgeschichte über Jojo und Keenan ist einfach supersüß!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Una buena película
Reviewed in Spain on February 18, 2020
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Película que juega con los sentimientos de sus intérpretes, pero está muy bien no es demasiado melosa, bastante creible.
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ScottPaul ScottPaul
5.0 out of 5 stars Playing By Cheek!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2012
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Willard Carroll (director of the utterfly woeful 1990 horror 'The Runestone') creates one of the Top 3 cinematic splashes of 1998 with this utterly absorbing, winningly clever and beautifuly wrought multi-stranded drama with liberal pilings of wit along the way. Bringing 'Short Cuts' to mind structurally, it hinges around a small number of characters getting to grips with flailing marriages, past indescretions, hesitant puppy-love, the hell of single-dom and more. And to say anything more would be to criminally take out the amazing surprises that the script pulls as the story unfolds. As with 'Short Cuts', you may tell the wretched Paul Thomas Anderson has been watching this film closely to help complete his turgid 'Magnolia' (along with several other 90s dramas)once you've seen it-once again there's a supporting actress pulled from this pretty much doing the same thing but to a far less worthy screen-timer in his absurd and derivative production.

Quite how Mr Carroll gets from the noneity of 'The Runestone' starring no one of any worth to probably the best cast ever assembled for a 90s movie really takes your breath away. The dialogue is fun and frantic where it needs to be, but always measured, perceptive and cohesive, the direction unfussy, and the film looks beautiful. Sean Connery's best movie in ages and his teaming with Gena Rowlands is pitched so prefectly, you can't think of them as anything other than married and for a good many years. Gillian Anderson is wonderful too, but it's the excellent and smoking hot Ryan Phillipe who deserves the awards and attention for his star-making turn as a shyest, sweetest hunk ever to go dancing on his own in the LA club scene. Such a contrast from the niave brat of '54' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'-and this would be the first film, along with the almost unknown 'Little Boy Blue' to tell us he was an actor of considerable depth and measure to completely belie his astounding looks. And he has continued to date to know exactly the right kind of movie to make, something his ex-wife Ms Witherspoon and many of his contemporaries have major hurdles with themselves.

Angelina Jolie herself is his perfect foil-but only in this. Perhaps she should have stuck with him, as after 'The Bone Collector' she sadly became a big star/celebrity as opposed to becoming a great actress, and typically, all the promise of decent features were tomb raided as she sought to be one of those few women who sit at the top and command skyline prices for no other reason than they can. She, like Ryan's ex, may have become the 'bigger' name, but he, like everyone in this, remains the bigger and better actor.

Disgustingly there are no extra features on this film at all, but it is a rarified gem of a piece, something destined to be beholden by few, despite its burning star wattage, yet sitting on here hoping to improve its quota, so Buy Heart and go Play. Few vanilla discs like this are actually worth getting just for the movie alone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 切ないけどハッピーな映画
Reviewed in Japan on August 6, 2002
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まずはキャストが豪華です！アンジェリーナ・ジョリーやライアン・フィピップなど、今を代表するような人たちが出ています。映画の内容は、レビューのタイトルにも書いたように切ないけど最後はハッピーな映画です。ついつい、アンジェリーナ��ジョリーが扮している女の子の気持ちになって見てしまうのは私だけでしょうか・・・。
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