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Two people who've known the pain of loss and the sting of betrayal are brought together under trying circumstances in this romantic drama. Dutch van den Broeck (Harrison Ford) is a police detective ba... read more read more...sed in Washington D.C. whose wife works for an upscale department store; flying to Miami on business, she dies shortly after takeoff in one of the worst aviation disasters in the city's history. However, Dutch finds out that his wife wasn't actually traveling on business: Kay Chandler (Kristin Scott Thomas) is a prominent political figure whose husband was also killed in the crash, and Dutch and Kay discover that their spouses were on the plane together because they were having an affair. Random Hearts was directed by Sydney Pollack, who also worked with Harrison Ford on his previous film, Sabrina. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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R, 2 hr. 13 min.

Directed by: Sydney Pollack

Release Date: October 8, 1999

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DVD Release Date: October 30, 2001

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  • April 29, 2012
    This movie has its pros and cons. Pros: Good acting - idea has lots of possibilities - not often we get this sort of combination of mystery and romance - I liked the vague ending. Cons: too long or drawn out.
  • June 24, 2008
    Dull and emotionless. A few well written scenes give a hint to what could have been an intriguing film. Ford and Scott Thomas work well separately and together but the overall film is simply frustrating. A number of sub plots seem more interesting than the main one handed to us w... read morehich again left me with a feeling of incompleteness.
  • January 31, 2008
    Pretty slick romantic movie set in Washington DC, the life of a detective falling in love.
  • April 3, 2007
    Will you hardly find the truth about your spouse even the truth really hurts?
  • November 7, 2006
    Heartbreaking...
  • September 13, 2006
    Good little thriller, mystery and affairs as I am a big fan of Harrison Ford movies.
  • December 30, 2008
    This movie is intriguing to me...I've seen it a couple times and I just want to see it again and again.
  • November 9, 2007
    The title describes it. It portrays life as basically meaningless and random. It made the movie just the same.
    It was unique in some of its ideas, which made me think a little, but in the end, blech.
  • July 4, 2007
    So what started with promise fizzled with puzzling character motivations, occasionally phoned in supporting acting and a lack of chemistry. And even pre-9/11, it seemed pretty easy to get on an airplane under a false name. Better than Firewall, but that's not saying an awful lot.

Critic Reviews


Rick Groen
March 22, 2002
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

Looks more like a case of random minds. Full Review

Desson Thomson
January 1, 2000
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

Almost everything that is wrong with the Hollywood system can be found here. Full Review

Tom Keogh
January 1, 2000
Tom Keogh, Film.com

Enormously boring.

Todd McCarthy
January 1, 2000
Todd McCarthy, Variety

Laborious, remote and strangely uninvolving. Full Review

Peter Rainer
January 1, 2000
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

[Ford] plays every emotion squarely and thuddingly, as if he were a heavyweight hitting the bag. Full Review

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, At the Movies

The film has no result--just an ending, leaving us with all of those fine pieces, still waiting to come together. Full Review

David Ansen
January 1, 2000
David Ansen, Newsweek

The heat generated by these two attractive stars barely rises above room temperature. Full Review

Susan Stark
January 1, 2000
Susan Stark, Detroit News

Beyond all its pointless circling around the center, Random Hearts tests audience patience by showing behavior far too long before explaining it. Full Review

David L. Beck
January 1, 2000
David L. Beck, San Jose Mercury News

Harrison Ford does some of his best work ever in Sydney Pollack's marvelous new thriller, Random Hearts.

Jeff Millar
January 1, 2000
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

I'd rather see the thriller in the trailer, about a plane crash, infidelity and scandal. Full Review

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