On top of the movie world after The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola continued to push cinematic...
On top of the movie world after The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola continued to push cinematic boundaries with this fantasy musical. But One from the Heart - with a ballooning production - ended a colossal flop critically and financially and sadly lead to Coppola's bankruptcy. Features an original soundtrack by Crystal Gayle and Tom Waits.
Shot entirely on neon infused sets at Coppola's Zoetrope studio, it follows a bickering Las Vegas couple (Teri Garr and Frederic Forrest) during a night's madness with other Vegas Strip dwellers.
Coppola has said the films he made afterwards, during the '80s and '90s, were made to pay off debts incurred by One from the Heart.
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51 %39 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
61 %2,877 reviewsAudience score rating
"Alternating between the banal and the sublime, One From the Heart is a visually stunning musical..."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"From its very first moments... One From the Heart promises a grace and radiance that is only intermittently warranted by the material."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"The movie may have been from (Coppola's) heart, but there's not much here from the pen."
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle"Coppola’s 1982 candy fable... looks like a Minnelli musical inexplicably shorn of music; when the characters do dance, the film comes alive and the stylisation makes perfect sense."
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Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader"This has matured over the years into a very likeable and moving romance with much to recommend it."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"One from the Heart is as unified in its composition and its ideas as its constituent set pieces, seen discretely, are diverse and distinctive."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"A hybrid musical romantic fantasy, lavishing giddy heights of visual imagination and technical brilliance onto a wafer-thin story of true love turned sour, then sweet."
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Variety
Variety"At times the project seems in danger of being scuppered by its own lavishness; the saving grace is a light heart."
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Time Out
Time Out"An interesting production but not a good movie."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"An often maligned, giddy, superlative romantic musical."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterOne from the Heart | Details
- Runtime
- 107
- Genre
- Fantasy, Musical, Romance
- Country of origin
- USA
