Playing By Heart Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Willard Carroll
Genres: Drama
Rating:
Sophomore writer/director Willard_Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's theme is spoken by young club-hopper Joan (Angelina_Jolie). Taken by the mysterious Keenan (Ryan_Phillippe), she tells him that "talking about love" is like "dancing about architecture" (the original title until the studio thought it would be confused with Dancing at Lughnasa), meaning speech is not the medium to adequately express the details of love. They all try, anyway. Others up for the dance include a TV cooking-show hostess (Gena_Rowlands) and her husband (Sean_Connery) who still fight over his one brief infidelity 25 years earlier; two lovers (Madeline_Stowe, Anthony_Edwards) who discuss their unhappy marriages; and a theater director (Gillian_Anderson) and her architect, Mr. Right (Jon_Stewart). Also searching are Dennis_Quaid, Nastassja_Kinski and Patricia_Clarkson. For a familial sort of love, there's Ellen_Burstyn as the estranged mother to her son (Jay_Mohr) dying of AIDS. Ron Wells, Rovi
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