Product Details

• Actors: Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson, Julia Blake, Jonathan Hardy
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: December 26, 2001
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005R5GH
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,723 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Lonely Hearts" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A 50-year-old shoplifting bachelor forms an unlikely alliance with a spinster deathly afraid of men and sex.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 11-JAN-2005
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lonely Hearts, March 11, 2002

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K. Carter (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Hearts (DVD)

I was lucky enough to catch this movie from beginning to end on a local cable station. In the first five minutes of the film, I was so engaged that I could not change the station. I really enjoyed watching this movie. The characters were very funny and realistically human. At the end of this movie, as with any great novel, I wondered what else would happen to the characters. I highly recommend this movie for viewing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally entertaining film., December 26, 2008

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J. Badger (Bimingham, Al) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Hearts (DVD)

Lonely Hearts is one of my all time favorite movies. Peter is approaching fifty and single. Through a matchmaking service, he meets the much younger and beautiful (but repressed) Patricia. They start dating and their lives bloom. The film is quirky, funny, and endearing. Both characters have their faults but, no matter, you will love them by the end of the movie. I hated for the film to end. I have watched it many times and it never grows old.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well-made film about ordinary people falling in love, December 13, 2006

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Nathan Andersen "film lover, philosophy profe... (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Hearts (DVD)

This is a very simple film about two fairly simple people who find that love is never so simple. Norman Kaye plays a 49 year old piano tuner who, following his mother's death, attempts to meet someone through a arranged dating service. He is introduced to a much younger woman, who as a result of domineering parents has come to isolate herself from others and to fear intimacy. The ultimate outcome is fairly predictable (while remaining open-ended in the way of life, and against the grain of standard Hollywood films that like to tie everything up neatly at the end), but the director has chosen to satisfy the basic demands of the romantic comedy while avoiding both cliche and melodrama. The result is a set of fine and subtle performances, and a light and easy style that nevertheless does not shy away from frank depictions of the neuroses that each of us possesses but can rarely face up to, and depicts the inescapably sexual dimension of relationships both directly and with sensitivity, neither aiming to exploit the characters or titillate the audience. In many ways this reminded me of the films of Cassavettes -- though the film feels a bit less epic and overwhelming than most of Cassavettes film, it is slightly more optimistic without being false.