Playing by Heart
The film tells the stories of eleven articulate people who work through affairs of the heart in L.A. 'Talking about love' is like 'dancing about architecture,' meaning speech is not the medium to express the details of love.
9 April 1954, Houston, Texas, USA
28 November 1962, New York City, New York, USA
27 July 1967, Columbus, Ohio, USA
10 May 1943, Waukegan, Illinois, USA
19 June 1930, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
28 September 1987, Houston, Texas, USA
19 July 1962, Santa Barbara, California, USA
18 August 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 18, 2012
Carroll's milieu is resolutely middle class and the crises encountered all too predictable.
June 03, 2006
The brightest spot belongs to Angelina Jolie, who is so compelling to watch she has chemistry with the furniture.
June 03, 2006
All of these characters are more interesting when things are going badly for them than when the tide has turned, and Carroll's determination to make the final reel an extended bout of audience tummy tickling is disappointingly conventional.
October 13, 2004
Nothing more than merely watchable film.
January 01, 2000
The movie is consistently well-acted and features a gallery of characters so affable that it's difficult to actively dislike any of them, or, for that matter, the film as a whole.
June 03, 2006
This charming romantic comedy with a Los Angeles setting cuts between seemingly unconnected miniplots the way some Robert Altman movies do.
January 01, 2000
For all its artificiality, Playing by Heart percolates with an earnest charm.
February 14, 2001
If Playing by Heart is the kind of film that used to be known as a "woman's picture," it certainly provides more emotional nourishment than most other mainstream movies generate these days.
June 03, 2006
A very slight and inoffensive movie. It's a lot like L.A. itself, all surface, soothing and warm.
March 19, 2003
The dozen or so lead characters of Playing By Heart fear silence the way Biblical people feared locusts.
March 26, 2009
Carroll's characters spend so much time talking, albeit intelligently, that the connections they make seem peculiarly synthetic.
April 09, 2005
Playing By Heart tries hard and sometimes succeeds -- and Jolie is terrific.
