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by susidee34  - Top 200, Jan 02 '04
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I had more fun with this movie because it was so full of different ‘stars’ and all their actions played so well against each other. After all how many times do you get equal screen time for Gena Rowlands, Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, Anthony ...
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by kuuleimomi - Top 1000, Apr 08 '01
Pros: Angelina Jolie+Ryan Phillippe, Gillian Anderson+Jon Stewart, Soundtrack, Idea+Style, cast
Cons: Screenplay could be stronger, some things you will never believe in
Two years ago, when my Dad rented Playing by Heart, I did not know anything about this movie. Somehow I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT! The first thing attracts everyone is the cast. Scanning through the names I kept wondering how a movie with such a...
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by sarah_knipper , Oct 30 '00
Pros: FABULOUS soundtrack, Angelina Jolie & Ryan Philippe, Jon Stewart & Gillian Anderson
Cons: Anthony Edwards-can you say ick?, a bit disjointed, ending too tidy
I like to think of Playing By Heart as a wonderful, charming, witty movie that COULD have been almost perfect. Except that the editing staff obviously fell asleep halfway through their job and failed to realize that every scene with Anthony Edwards,...
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by Lambira - Top 1000, Feb 07 '00
Pros: Jolie, Connery, Quaid, Burstyn, Mohr, Scully, Phillipe...what a cast!
Cons: Short-Cutsian structure shortchanges almost all of the relationships; too tidy.
After being forced to endure many, many movies that seem more like the filmed fantasies of aging studio executives (I mean, Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones? Harrison Ford and Anne Heche? Warren Beatty and Halle Berry?) I rented Playing by...
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by Grouch - Top 200, Oct 30 '99
Pros: Lump-in-your-throat acting, witty script, triumphant ending
Cons: Head-spinning blur of characters and plot at first
Despite its bland-as-paste title, "Playing by Heart" is not the latest Meryl Streep movie. That’s "Music of the Heart," an equally ho-hum label. But consider the movie’s original title: "Dancing with Architecture." Though...
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by CoyoteWoman , Jan 30 '00
Pros: Everything
Cons: none
What can anyone say about Angelina Jolie? Sigh, even still, this movie has an ensamble cast consisting of Gillian Anderson, Jon Stewart, Ryan Phillipe, Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery, Madeline Stowe, Gena Rowlands,
Dennis Quaid, Jay Mohr, Ellen...
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by JackFoley , Mar 07 '01
Pros: Script, acting, drama
Cons: Segments are uneven in their effect
Being a high school guy, this is certainly not the type of film I normally find myself gravitating to. But after school one day I was surfing through my temporarily free array of obscure movie channels and found, on EncoreLove, "Playing by Heart"....
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by ajchic , Aug 06 '01
Pros: an all-star cast~wonderful tingly romance~Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery
Cons: too slowpaced for some
Playing by Heart wasn't released in more than 50% of the theatres in the US, nor was it meant to become a huge box-office hit. Mention this movie among a group of friends, and you're likely to hear a chorus of "Playing by what?!"....
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by SusanGranger - Top 1000, May 06 '00
Pros: Wonderful ensemble cast and intelligent dialogue
Cons: Uneven - some storylines work better than others
Someone once said that "writing about music is like dancing about architecture" - meaning it cannot be done - and film-maker Willard Carroll was so taken with that sentiment that he called this funny, poignant drama "Dancing About...
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by mrbrown , Feb 04 '00
Pros: Sweetly romantic; Angelina Jolie's luminous performance.
Cons: Some storylines don't work as well as others.
Thanks to a strange MPAA ruling--and much to the delight, I'm sure, of Miramax's marketing department--writer-director Willard Carroll was forced to change the title of his Dancing About Architecture to Playing by Heart. Never in recent...
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by Guildencrantz - Top 1000, Jan 10 '00
Pros: Great character psychology & examples of close relationships.
Cons: Motivations seem a little pushed at points.
Playing By Heart is a social interactionist exhibition. It's the study of six relationships, a single character study, eleven people, a dog and a cat. This is about personalities, compatibility, love and disease. All in all it's a very ...
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by CATSocialD , Jul 02 '00
Pros: Great Cast; Very Satisfying Real-Life Story
Cons: Nothing in Particular
"Playing by Heart" hit the theaters and nobody noticed. I saw it because my movie sold out. The movie left the theaters soon after and everybody forgot about it. I'm not sure why. I think that there is a genre of movies out there that is just...
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by stealth , Apr 23 '00
Pros: Great stories woven together well
Cons: Almost too many main characters...
This was a truly great movie, for the genre. Playing by Heart is a romantic comedy, perhaps best enjoyed by couples in their 30's. It explores the joys & pains of love throughout various stages of people's lives, with a good family story to...
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by doink2018 , Jun 22 '00
Pros: Great dialogue.
Cons: Have to be able to pay attention to the dialogue.
This movie deserved more promotion than it received. With such an all-star cast, it would have been logical for Miramax to plug it for all it was worth. I was disappointed when Playing By Heart was released only to select theaters across the...
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by xixi , Jun 04 '00
Pros: A sweet movie that touches some sensitive subjects; it'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry.
Cons: Somewhat predictable, nothing really spectacular or groundbreaking about it.
Despite the terribly misleading title, Playing By Heart is not a warm fuzzies kind of movie -- at least, not entirely. It has its heart warming moments, but there's a slight edge to the whole film; it has an element of realism that remains...
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