Nonureva Really Surprised!

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

moonspinner55 A slick tapestry of not-so-disparate lives touched by love and death. Willard Carroll writes just like he directs: for immediate impact only, without regard to the characters he's spotlighting in a scene or to what follows dramatically thereafter. He panders to an audience's base emotions, which sometimes leaves his follow-through seeming empty or halfhearted. After losing her son to AIDS, grieving Ellen Burstyn is invited to a neighbor's celebration, where she is greeted warmly and then forgotten about. Dennis Quaid improvises a phony life story to an all-seeing, all-knowing drag queen, who calls Quaid out on his lie and then disappears. Carroll isn't interested in his smartest creations--he's mainly after warm hugs and kisses (which we are flooded with near the end). Some may see the writer-director's proverbial third-act ribbon-wrapping as clever and uncanny, but nothing is really accomplished by crisscrossing the paths of these people...it's simply a writer's folly. Aside from the touching Burstyn story, it doesn't wash. ** from ****

Prabhakaran So A dialog based drama about 11 different unrelated characters. A snapshot in their course of life is 'Playing by Heart'. In the end, we realize all characters are related.Mildred is coping with her son who is dieing young of a terminal disease, elderly couple Hannah and Paul having a row over Paul's affair 25 years back, depressed lad Keenan who fears to have a love affair and a girl Joan who tries to bring him into love, drama director Meredith struggles to accept her attraction towards Trent, Gracie thinking her husband does not have imagination, tries to compensate it with a blind date with a guy without sharing any identities and her husband trying to cope up with his imagination problem.Best thing about the movie is the dialogs. Many thoughtful statements and emotional moments. All main characters acted without any hitches. Angelina Jolie and Gena Rowlands are noteworthy actors. I feel If one or two melody songs would have come during the sequence it would have been much better.Watch it only if you like dialogs based drama.

darksideofmoon Sometimes its a nice surprise to find a hidden gem. I didn't know anything about this film and just looking at the cover i was amused to find such a good cast. I randomly picked up this film from the store and boy i was surprised. Great cast and amazing performance and its one of those movies which you can go through again without getting bored. I am not surprised very few people have heard about this film,including me of course. The performance of all the actors is noteworthy and i specially liked Sean Connery, Ryan Phillip and Angelina Jolie. It sure is going to my personal collection. Definitely underrated and highly recommended.

Jim Rubstello The relationship between Angelina Jolie and Ryan Phillippe is one of the top 5 best relationships in the last 40 years and carries the film. Mohr and Burnstyn should a special amount of "growth" in a relationship that has little time.This is a relationship movie, and deals with people needing to accept people for who they are, to be patient and understanding to what has made people the way they are. I enjoyed discovering the about the relationships as the movie went along. Kudos to Dennis Quaid for playing a searching personality that does not come across as the suave macho lead. If you like Jon Stewart this you have fun watching him act. There is something for everyone and everyone may find themselves in one of the characters and hopefully grow from the experience.