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Playing by Heart has plenty of potential and merit as long as you skip the movie and just watch the trailer. The cast is very talented, sporting names such as Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Jon Stewart, Gillian Anderson, Dennis Quaid, Anthony Edwards, Angelina Jolie and Ryan Phillipe. Producers must have expected that an ensemble of such famous actors would draw the crowds, although if often seems quite ridiculous that some of these beautiful people have not found dates in years. Also, the trailer displays every laugh-out-loud moment found in this romantic comedy in less than five minutes...
Harvard's troubles continued when B.C. right wing Erin Magee scored on an assist from left wing Gena Nolin...
...guilty secret of John Cassavetes' films was that they relied on Hollywood star quality. His lupine smile sent out laser beams of frantic menace, and Gena Rowlands had (still has) a face the camera can't stop watching. When she shows up in She's So Lovely to hear Penn murmur, "You're a very beautiful woman, and I haven't been around the kindness of women in some time," it's a sweet tribute from this generation of Method mesmerizers to the one who taught them...
...make as the offspring and the director of a star parent. Still, it can't be that horrid, since a spate of families have taken to the set together with happy results. NICK CASSAVETES wrote and directed Unhook the Stars as a "love letter" to his mom GENA ROWLANDS, and, he says, "she sent me one with her amazing performance." Meanwhile, EMILIO ESTEVEZ directed and starred with dad MARTIN SHEEN in The War at Home. All three offspring admit, however, that it did mean they were a tad anxious about the finished product. "My other forays into directing were...
...packs up her daughter and heads home to the family horse farm and a confrontation with the past that made her what she is--a woman too emotionally guarded and self-denying for her own good. Dad (Robert Duvall) is the soft-drawling dictator of a prosperous domain. Mom (Gena Rowlands) is the perpetual placater, for whom niceness is a moral imperative. Big Sister (Kyra Sedgwick) has a tough but funny tongue and, one guesses, a damaged soul...