The Guardian
Alternating between the banal and the sublime, One From the Heart is a visually stunning musical...
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One from the Heart
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.
Less1982Rating: M107 minsUSA
FantasyMusicalRomance
- Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola ('The Godfather' trilogy, 'Apocalypse Now', 'The Conversation', 'Rumble Fish')
- Writer:
- Francis Ford CoppolaArmyan Bernstein
- Cast:
- Frederic ForrestTeri GarrRaul JuliaNastassja KinskiLainie KazanHarry Dean StantonAllen GarfieldRebecca De MornayTom Waits
One from the Heart | Reviews
50%34 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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The New York Times
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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San Francisco Chronicle
The movie may have been from (Coppola's) heart, but there's not much here from the pen.
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Chicago Reader
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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Empire Magazine
This has matured over the years into a very likeable and moving romance with much to recommend it.
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The New Yorker
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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Variety
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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Time Out
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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One from the Heart | Release Details
One from the Heart is available to stream in New Zealand now on AroVision.