One from the Heart
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- For the soundtrack recorded by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle see One from the Heart (album)
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| Directed by | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Produced by | Gray Frederickson Fred Roos |
| Written by | Armyan Bernstein Francis Ford Coppola |
| Starring | Frederic Forrest Teri Garr |
| Music by | Teddy Edwards Tom Waits |
| Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro Ronald Víctor García |
| Editing by | Rudi Fehr Anne Goursaud Randy Roberts |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 12, 1982 |
| Running time | 107 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $26,000,000 |
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One from the Heart is a 1982 musical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is set entirely in Las Vegas, on the Las Vegas Strip and the desert surrounding the city. Though the film realistically evokes the feeling of being on the busy Las Vegas Strip, there were no location shots used in the film, it shot on studio sound stages with the single exception of one space on the backlot for a 'Las Vegas junkyard' set, described by a character in the film as being 'the garden of the Taj Mahal'.
The extraordinary cost of the production of this film would lead to Coppola's declaring bankruptcy. Originally intended as a small film after the enormous cost, pressures and production problems of Apocalypse Now, One from the Heart rapidly ballooned from a projected budget of $2 million to over $25 million. Rather than shooting on location, Coppola insisted on building sets, to add to the artificiality of the proscenium.
Set construction proceeded to such an extent that a replica of Las Vegas' McCarran Airport - complete with a jetway and jet airliner (built from the nose section of a crashed plane) - was built and used for the penultimate scene. The sets for the film consumed the entirety of soundstage space at Coppola's recently-acquired American Zoetrope studio. Because of the maze of wiring and flammable scrims, backdrops and other materials, Dean Tavoularis half-jokingly referred to the Vegas Strip set - the centerpiece of the film - as a "firetrap", saying it caused him to have "nightmares about fires" during the film's production.
In terms of his career, Coppola has stated that the films he made during the rest of the 1980s and most of the 1990s, such as The Outsiders, The Cotton Club, Jack and The Rainmaker, were done to pay off the debts incurred by the production of One from the Heart.
One from the Heart features an original soundtrack from Crystal Gayle and Tom Waits. Waits received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score. Dean Tavoularis, whose art department was next door to the musical rehearsal space, used Tom Waits' music as tonal inspiration which was incorporated into the film's highly-stylized 'look'. Mickey Hart, drummer for The Grateful Dead, and musician Bobby Vega were also credited for their contributions to the production.
[edit] Public reaction
The film played to near empty cinemas on its release, but many of those who did make the effort to see it have become life-long fans. Its dream-like quality, the downbeat, realistic nature of Tom Waits lyrics and the touching vulnerability of both leading actors are its virtues. For those that do not like the film, and there are many, the artificiality of the sets, mixed with the ordinary nature of the story and its two leading actors are key objections. Due to its low popularity the release of a DVD was left until only a few years ago. However many fans of the film object to cuts made for this DVD release.
[edit] Cast
- Frederic Forrest as Hank
- Teri Garr as Frannie
- Raúl Juliá as Ray
- Nastassja Kinski as Leila
- Lainie Kazan as Maggie
- Harry Dean Stanton as Moe
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