Live and love in LA

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Movie
German title Live and love in LA
Original title Playing by Heart
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Willard Carroll
script Willard Carroll
production Willard Carroll
Meg Liberman
Thomas L. Wilhite
music John Barry
camera Vilmos Zsigmond
cut Pietro Scalia
occupation

Life and love in LA (Playing by Heart) is an American film drama by Willard Carroll from the year 1998 . The main roles were played by Sean Connery , Angelina Jolie , Ryan Phillippe and Dennis Quaid .

action

Joan calls from a phone booth in a disco to break up with her boyfriend. She needs change, Keenan gives her some. Keenan and Joan meet again and get a little closer, but Keenan remains distant. To lure him out of the reserve, Joan fakes the theft of her car, which doesn't help her.

When Joan urges Keenan to be open, he criticizes her alcohol consumption . She immediately spits out her drink and throws the glass on the floor. Keenan says he used to be with a woman who was addicted to heroin and had AIDS and died. Keenan is also HIV positive. At first he thinks he should never fall in love again, which Joan disappoints. Later he decides to have a relationship.

The film shows the relationships of other couples. The dying Paul, suffering from a brain tumor , has been married to Hannah for 40 years. He had an affair 25 years ago, which is why Hannah reproaches him.

Gracie and Roger meet regularly in a hotel room, while Hugh, Gracie's husband, slips into made-up roles and has long conversations in bars. Gracie tells Roger how passionate her relationship with Hugh was in the beginning and how empty it has become.

In Chicago, far away from Los Angeles, Mark is in a hospital and knows that he will never leave it alive. For the first time in his life, he has long, honest conversations with his mother. At first, both find it difficult, but soon find pleasure in the new openness.

The theater director Meredith meets the architect Trent, but she is afraid of a permanent relationship. After the second meeting, she starts a relationship with Trent. She spends one night with him, in the morning she is called and asked to attend the funeral of her ex-husband. During her absence, Trent takes care of her apartment and her dog.

In the end it turns out that Joan, Gracie and Meredith are daughters of Paul and Hannah. The family meets when Paul and Hannah renew their wedding vows. Hugh asks Gracie if the marriage would last for 40 years.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was a modern ensemble dramatic comedy that would show the many faces of love. He praised the performances of Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands and Gillian Anderson as well as the dialogues.

Roger Ebert praised Angelina Jolie's screen presence in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 22, 1999. He referred to the characters in the film as "softies", which he explained with the contemporary trend in cinema to lure the audience with arousing emotions. The large number of figures would make it impossible to properly perceive them all.

Awards

Angelina Jolie won the National Board of Review Award in 1998 . Willard Carroll was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlinale .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

backgrounds

Stars like Sean Connery and Gillian Anderson accepted fees of 50,000 US dollars , which made it possible to finance the film project. Connery said he was "very touched" by the script. After he was the first to agree, other well-known actors agreed.

The cost of producing the film was estimated to be $ 14 million. It grossed approximately $ 3.96 million in US cinemas.

swell

  1. ↑ Review by James Berardinelli, accessed August 2, 2007
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert, accessed on August 2, 2007
  3. ↑ Harald Keller, Angelina Jolie , page 88
  4. ↑ Box office / business for Playing by Heart, accessed August 2, 2007

literature

  • Harald Keller, Angelina Jolie , Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-929470-33-0 , pages 88–94, 149–150

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