NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

georgepsoady Watching Coppola's "One From The Heart" feels more like a selection of cheesy 80s music videos put behind Tom Waits decent soundtrack instead of a film. The plot is very strange and doesn't really go anywhere.

Henry Fields "One from the Heart" is the story of two kindred spirits that have to get through a separation just to find out that they belong to each other. I'm sure that many of you have had similar experiences, don't you? It is also a celebration of the Broadway performances, and of the old school cinema, when everything was hand-made. In the background we hear the voices of Tom Waits and Cristal Gayle singing and narrating what we're watching in the screen (or what we're going to watch...) on a jazz or a blues beat.They made a huge work of edition here and the photography is just awesome (it's no surprise, anyway, for it was Vicente Storaro the one who photographed it).As for the cast, Terri Garr's performance is just awesome and she looks so sexy (too bad she wasted her talent in second rate comedies), and the eyes of Nastassja Kinski are the most beautiful you'll ever see.Viva Las Vegas!!! My rate: 7/10

abstract-5 My main problem with this film is that I found neither of the main characters to be remotely sympathetic. Pathetic, yes; sympathetic, not at all. Both are liars and cheats and seemingly have no real pride in themselves or what they want. In short, I was anxious for the film to be over pretty much right from the beginning. The fact that this disastrous, dysfunctional couple gets back together at the end is both predictable and infuriating. Garr's character, for all her insistence that "this is the end", finally breaks down to the cliché "love conquers all" BS that this movie attempts to foist on the viewer. Just awful. Visually, there are some interesting techniques used, not to mention some genuinely beautiful shots, but that wasn't enough to overcome my disappointment. However, the only truly redeeming aspect of this flick is Waits' soundtrack. It's the only thing that got me to sit through the entire thing. After all, T.W. can do no wrong.

TechIB Coppola was on the upswing and hitting his stride when he opened his studio with One From The Heart. It is hard to think of another movie that got such a raking over the coals by the press even before it completed principal photography. Coppola made a mistake by sharing his enthusiasm and unfinished film with the press and their ruthless and premature reviews doomed the film in the minds of the movie going public. You would think he was destroying lives and deceiving moviegoers, not busting his tail and risking his fortune to entertain people for six bucks and two hours.Coppola had certainly proved his ability to handle serious, heavy subject matter and OFTH was a change of pace and a leap forward. He cast talent not stars and using Las Vegas as the setting allowed all the elements and layers to coexist and move between fact and fantasy in an amazingly fluid visual context. He was making a movie about the way life tends to be unstatic and shaded not in many grays but with infinite colors. It is a very sophisticated telling of an unpretentious story I'm sure Coppola intended to mark a beginning, not an end. If you read interviews with him at the time, he is clearly not sticking to a formula for success but putting his money where is mouth is and expanding the lexicon of the cinema. He must have been having too much fun or something. He wasn't being recalls.Trying to forget the film's history for a moment, ask yourself if OFTH was such torture to sit through you would think a refund on the ticket price was justified. Then ask yourself if you think it was such a disaster that it deserves to fail at the box office and take down a major director and his studio with it. Pretty asinine when you think about it. I'm glad to see so many positive comments on OFTH here. Makes me sure that it would have been a different story had the press not given the whole Zoetrope deal the knife job.