
Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Frannie leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship. Each one of them meets their dream mate, but as bright as they may seem, they are but a stage of lights and colors. Will true love prevail over a seemingly glamorous passion? Welcome to Coppola's Broadway-like romantic musical.... (Full plot summary below)
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Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Frannie leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship. Each one of them meets their dream mate, but as bright as they may seem, they are but a stage of lights and colors. Will true love prevail over a seemingly glamorous passion? Welcome to Coppola's Broadway-like romantic musical.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIf any film from the 1980s needs to be re-examined, it's Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart. |
| VarietyVariety StaffA 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. |
| New York TimesJanet MaslinThere'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. |
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinAn integral piece of the oeuvre of one of America's great directors. |
| Entertainment TodayBrent SimonA 1982 curio about feeling, not the weighty machinations of plot... but one that offers only moments of studied amusement, not rapt absorption. |
| National PostKatrina OnstadA musical without singing and too little dancing. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarIt still feels like an exercise, but it's a beautiful one. |
| Time OutKevin JacksonAt times the project seems in danger of being scuppered by its own lavishness; the saving grace is a light heart. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittOne From the Heart is aptly named. No one will mistake it for One From the Brain. |
| Spectrum CulturePat PaduaCoppola surrounds his lovelorn characters in a dizzying virtuoso display, but he knows what all this cinematic excitement adds up to: escape. |