I may be a sucker for most age-appropriate couples romantic movies, but I did like "Playing By Heart."
The audience was really rooting for all but one of the couples - people actually gasped and groaned when it looked like one or the other weren't going to make it.
The ending isn't a 100% surprise as cues are foreshadowed throughout, but it's very clever and all but the one unsympathetic couple are acted very well.
That Angeline Jolie (I first saw her in "Hackers"; so surprising that she's laconic Jon Voight's daughter) is a ball of fire- she could breathe life into the dead, and does here, as I, too, fell in love with Ryan Phillippe. They wouldn't need resuscitators in "E.R." with her around.
So nice to see Gillian Anderson get to be something other than "Scully" (no we don't get to see much more of her for all you fans than kissing). And I do like that her relationship-phobia isn't neuroses but is based on the school of hard knocks that's demonstrated.
Dennis Quaid doesn't use his million watt smile, but Jon Stewart is a pleasant surprise.
Gina Rowlands is up there with our leading mature actresses who don't get enough good roles.
Nice use of music for each's courtship, though I missed who was doing the duet over the end credits, though I thought I caught that the guy who wrote it was the lead guy from Live, so maybe that's who was singing.
The original title is referred to in the dialog.
(originally written 1/24/99)
The audience was really rooting for all but one of the couples - people actually gasped and groaned when it looked like one or the other weren't going to make it.
The ending isn't a 100% surprise as cues are foreshadowed throughout, but it's very clever and all but the one unsympathetic couple are acted very well.
That Angeline Jolie (I first saw her in "Hackers"; so surprising that she's laconic Jon Voight's daughter) is a ball of fire- she could breathe life into the dead, and does here, as I, too, fell in love with Ryan Phillippe. They wouldn't need resuscitators in "E.R." with her around.
So nice to see Gillian Anderson get to be something other than "Scully" (no we don't get to see much more of her for all you fans than kissing). And I do like that her relationship-phobia isn't neuroses but is based on the school of hard knocks that's demonstrated.
Dennis Quaid doesn't use his million watt smile, but Jon Stewart is a pleasant surprise.
Gina Rowlands is up there with our leading mature actresses who don't get enough good roles.
Nice use of music for each's courtship, though I missed who was doing the duet over the end credits, though I thought I caught that the guy who wrote it was the lead guy from Live, so maybe that's who was singing.
The original title is referred to in the dialog.
(originally written 1/24/99)