Playing by Heart

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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
Studio	Hyperion Pictures
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release dates	December 18, 1998 (1998-12-18)
Running time	121 minutes
Country	United States
Budget	$14,000,000
Box office	$3,970,078

Playing by Heart is a 1998 American comedy-drama film, which tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters. It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows (Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands); a woman (Gillian Anderson) who accepts a date offer from a stranger (Jon Stewart); a gay 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 become evident. Kellie Waymire, Nastassja Kinski, Alec Mapa, Amanda Peet and Michael Emerson also have roles in the film.

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