Playing by Heart

Playing by Heart

Directed by	Willard Carroll
Produced by	Willard Carroll Meg Liberman
Written by	Willard Carroll
Starring	Gillian Anderson Ellen Burstyn Sean Connery Anthony Edwards Angelina Jolie Jay Mohr Ryan Phillippe Dennis Quaid Gena Rowlands Jon Stewart Madeleine Stowe
Music by	John Barry
Cinematography	Vilmos Zsigmond
Editing by	Pietro Scalia
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	1998
Running time	121 min.
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Playing by Heart is a 1998 comedy-drama film, which tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters.

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Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows (Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands); an anti-social woman (Gillian Anderson) who accepts a date offer from a stranger (Jon Stewart); a man dying of AIDS (Jay Mohr) and his mother (Ellen Burstyn) who has struggled to accept him; two clubbers who meet in a nightclub (Ryan Phillippe and Angelina Jolie); a couple having an affair (Anthony Edwards and Madeleine Stowe) and a man (Dennis Quaid) who tells his tragic life story to a woman he meets in a bar (Patricia Clarkson), but seems to have a strange connection to another mysterious woman. As the film continues and the stories evolve, the connections between the characters - both literal and subtextual - become evident. Kellie Waymire, Nastassja Kinski and Amanda Peet also have roles in the film.

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Jolie won an award for "Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress" from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and writer/director Willard Carroll was nominated for an award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

In some regions, the film was released under the title Intermedia. The original US title was "Dancing About Architecture".

Hilary Duff has a small part in the movie as one of the character's children, although her part is uncredited.^{[citation needed]}