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In [[1999]], ''Random Hearts'' was adapted into a film of the same name directed by [[Sydney Pollack]] and starring [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Kristin Scott Thomas]]. |
In [[1999]], ''Random Hearts'' was adapted into a film of the same name directed by [[Sydney Pollack]] and starring [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Kristin Scott Thomas]]. |
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The film adaptation loosely follows the story of the novel but many of the characters have been changed. Edward Davis is now Sergeant William 'Dutch' Van Den Broeck, a [[Washington DC]] police officer. Vivien Simpson is now Kay Chandler, a wealthy [[U.S. Republican Party|Republican]] Congresswoman with a teenage daughter. They meet when their spouses, Peyton and Cullen, are killed in a plane crash and realize that they were having an affair. The story evolves around the relationship between the two surviving spouses, as the [[tragedy]] envelopes their lives and |
The film adaptation loosely follows the story of the novel but many of the characters have been changed. Edward Davis is now Sergeant William 'Dutch' Van Den Broeck, a [[Washington DC]] police officer. Vivien Simpson is now Kay Chandler, a wealthy [[U.S. Republican Party|Republican]] Congresswoman with a teenage daughter. They meet when their spouses, Peyton and Cullen, are killed in a plane crash and realize that they were having an affair. The story evolves around the relationship between the two surviving spouses, as the [[tragedy]] envelopes their lives and affects his career as a police officer and her campaign for re-election to Congress. |
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Revision as of 19:42, 8 April 2009
| Random Hearts | |
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| Directed by | Sydney Pollack |
| Written by | Warren Adler (novel) Darryl Ponicsan (adaptation) Kurt Luedtke (screenplay) David Rayfiel uncredited |
| Produced by | Martin Jurow & Marykay Powell |
| Starring | Harrison Ford Kristin Scott Thomas |
| Cinematography | Philippe Rousselot |
| Edited by | William Steinkamp |
| Music by | Dave Grusin |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates | October 8, 1999 |
Running time | 133 min. |
| Language | English |
 Cover to Stonehouse edition of Random Hearts | |
| Author | Warren Adler |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Stonehouse |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Publication place | USA |
| Media type | Hardcover/Paperback/E-Text |
| Pages | 293 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN 0025002902 (hardcover) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Random Hearts is a 1984 novel by American author Warren Adler. In 1999, the novel was made into a motion picture directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Plot summary (novel)
Vivien Simpson, a housewife with a young son, and Edward Davis, an aide to a congressman, had never met before, but soon they would be inseparable. Their respective spouses, Orson and Lily, had been carrying on an affair for some time. The affair abruptly ended when their plane to Miami crashes moments after take off. Vivien believed her husband was off to Paris for business. Edward thought his wife was in L.A. Once the bodies are identified, the knowledge they were traveling together is imparted on Vivien and Edward.
They are consumed with curiosity, but nobody is alive to answer their questions. All that remains of the clandestine love affair is a set of nearly unidentifiable keys which neither Vivien nor Edward knows what they belong to. They center their lives around discovering what their spouses kept from them whilst finding themselves slowly becoming closer to each other.
Film adaptation
In 1999, Random Hearts was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.
The film adaptation loosely follows the story of the novel but many of the characters have been changed. Edward Davis is now Sergeant William 'Dutch' Van Den Broeck, a Washington DC police officer. Vivien Simpson is now Kay Chandler, a wealthy Republican Congresswoman with a teenage daughter. They meet when their spouses, Peyton and Cullen, are killed in a plane crash and realize that they were having an affair. The story evolves around the relationship between the two surviving spouses, as the tragedy envelopes their lives and affects his career as a police officer and her campaign for re-election to Congress.
Reaction
The film, one of Ford's biggest flops, failed both critically and commercially. Budgeted at $64 million, it made $31 million in the US and another $43 million internationally.
Production History
The film was in "development hell" for quite some years, and Kevin Costner had previously been attached to project in the early 1990s.
Primary cast
- Harrison Ford : Sergeant William 'Dutch' Van Den Broeck
- Kristin Scott Thomas : Kay Chandler
- Charles S. Dutton : Alcee
- Bonnie Hunt : Wendy Judd
- Dennis Haysbert : Detective George Beaufort
- Sydney Pollack : Carl Broman
- Richard Jenkins : Truman Trainor
- Paul Guilfoyle : Dick Montoya
- Susanna Thompson : Peyton Van Den Broeck
- Peter Coyote : Cullen Chandler
- Kate Mara : Jessica Chandler
- Dylan Baker : Richard Judd
- Lynne Thigpen : Phyllis Bonaparte
- Reiko Aylesworth : Mary Claire Clark
- Edie Falco : Janice
- Alex Trebek : Jeopardy! Host
External links
- Random Hearts at the Internet Book List
- Random Hearts at IMDb
- Warren Adler Official Website
- Read the first chapter