Random Hearts 1834475 211226510 2008-05-09T10:04:41Z Radosław10 7006480 /* External links */ {{Infobox_Film | name = Random Hearts | image = RandomHeartsfilm.jpg | imdb_id = 0156934 | producer = [[Martin Jurow]] & [[Marykay Powell]] | director = [[Sydney Pollack]] <br>[[Denis L. Stewart]] (1st Ass't) | writer = [[Warren Adler]] (novel)<br>[[Darryl Ponicsan]] (adaptation)<br>[[Kurt Luedtke]] (screenplay)<br>[[David Rayfiel]] uncredited | starring = [[Harrison Ford]]<br>[[Kristin Scott Thomas]] | music = [[Dave Grusin]] | cinematography = [[Philippe Rousselot]] | editing = [[William Steinkamp]] | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] | released = [[October 8]], [[1999]] | runtime = 133 min. | language = [[English language|English]] }} {{Infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | image = [[Image:Cover-randomhearts.jpg|Cover to Stonehouse edition of Random Hearts]] <!-- FAIR USE of book cover - Cover-randomhearts.jpg : see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cover-randomhearts.jpg for rationale --> | image_caption = Cover to Stonehouse edition of ''Random Hearts'' | name = Random Hearts | author = [[Warren Adler]] | country = USA | language = English | genre = Fiction | publisher = Stonehouse | release_date = 1984 | media_type = Hardcover/Paperback/E-Text | pages = 293 pages | isbn = ISBN 0025002902 (hardcover) }} ''''' Random Hearts ''''' is a [[1984 in literature|1984]] [[Warren Adler's Random Hearts|novel]] by [[United States|American]] author [[Warren Adler]]. In [[1999 in film|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 impacting on his career as a police officer and her campaign for re-election to Congress. The film was not a box office success. Budgeted at $64 million, it made $31 million in the US and another $43 million internationally. The film was in "[[development hell]]" for quite some years, and [[Kevin Costner]] had previously been attached to project in the early 1990s. <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:random hearts DVD.jpg|thumb|Random Hearts DVD cover]] --> ==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== *{{iblist title|id=33044|title=Random Hearts}} *{{imdb title|id=0156934|title=Random Hearts}} *[http://www.warrenadler.com/title-randomhearts.shtml Warren Adler Official Website] *[http://www.warrenadler.com/title-randomhearts-sample.shtml Read the first chapter] {{Sydney Pollack Films}} [[Category:1984 novels]] [[Category:1999 films]] [[Category:Films based on romance books]] [[Category:Drama films]] [[Category:Romance films]] [[Category:English-language films]] [[Category:Films directed by Sydney Pollack]] {{1990s-drama-film-stub}} [[de:Begegnung des Schicksals]] [[ja:ランダム・ハーツ]] [[it:Destini incrociati]] [[pl:Zagubione serca]]