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One from the Heart

When Francis Ford Coppola makes a love story… don't expect hearts and flowers.

1982 · 1h 39m · R Drama, Romance
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

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Overview

In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniversary and each pursue the fantasy of new love over one neon-soaked night—he with a free-spirited acrobat, she with a seductive musician. But as illusion and reality blur, both must decide whether passion or devotion truly defines the heart.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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50%
Tomatometer
Fresh

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.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

An interesting production but not a good movie.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

There's not a moment in One From the Heart when Mr. Coppola isn't after something romantic and glorious, something inexpressibly grand. At times, he even gets what he's after.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh

[An] often maligned, giddy, superlative romantic musical.

Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh

A playful, delightfully unfathomable piece of magic.

Desson Thomson, Washington Post

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