This might have been tailor-made by director Pollack to ease Ford into more straightforwardly romantic territory.
Random Hearts
In a perfect world, they never would have met.
1999 · 2h 13m · R
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Sydney Pollack
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Random Hearts
Overview
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.
Director and cast
- Sydney Pollack Director
- Harrison Ford as Dutch Van Den Broeck
- Kristin Scott Thomas as Kay Chandler
- Charles S. Dutton as Alcee
- Richard Jenkins as Truman Trainor
- Dennis Haysbert as Detective George Beaufort
- Sydney Pollack as Carl Broman
- Susanna Thompson as Peyton Van Den Broeck
- Peter Coyote as Cullen Chandler
- Kate Mara as Jessica Chandler
- Susan Floyd as Molly Roll
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Looks more like a case of random minds.
Almost everything that is wrong with the Hollywood system can be found here.
Enormously boring.
Sydney Pollack can't locate any kind of chemistry between Ford and Thomas, whose first and last scenes together are especially labored.
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