Daily BirthdaysUntamed Heart (1993)
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| Directed by | Tony Bill |
| Cast | Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Kyle Secor, Willie Garson, Vincent Kartheiser, Joe Minjares and Joshua Schaefer |
| Theatrical Release | February 12, 1993 |
| DVD Release | January 9, 2001 |
| Running Time | 102 minutes |
| MPAA Rating | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| UPC Code | 027616857798 |
| Buy this item | $9.99 at Amazon.com As of Oct 12 3:44 EDT (details) 1 DVD, MGM (Video & DVD), Usually ships in 24 hours, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed - Dolby Digital 2.0) Or 50 new from $3.08, 30 used from $3.08, 2 collectible from $14.99 |
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(69 reviews) |  | Suspend reality..... |  |
I love to watch Marisa Tomei - think she is a great actress - and Rosie Perez is good too. The story follows a young couple who develop a relationship despite their circumstances. Tomei plays an outgoing waitress; Slater is a reclusive dishwasher who rarely talks.
This sweet eccentric story will give you a couple of hours of viewing pleasure but afterwards you may ask "why?" April 12, 2008
 | | Magic Records and a Baboon Heart ... | |
So a lot of folks come away with a lot of mixed feelings regarding this movie. Ok, understood. Some people say that `On The Road' was boring and that they didn't get it. Not all the great masterpieces are appealing to everyone. But I think the problem is that you have to see this movie during a point of quiet, and when you're not expecting it. That's when books and films have a way of sneaking up on a person and hitting you over the head for all they're worth.
Untamed Heart was a film that came out when the market was already flooded with similar films, but with different messages, but none as endearing and honest. Young actors weren't in short supply by any means either. Independent Film was being given a second wind, too by younger and more eager Directors than the ones making multi-million dollar big budget pictures. A lot of those films have faded away, and yet this movie still has a credible amount of relevance and a striking amount of nostalgia and appeal.
The most interesting thing about this though is that this was a one-hit wonder in terms of writing by Tom Sierchio. The story is so well developed that it unfolds as if it were an adaptation from a best-seller. Snooping the internet, looking for information about his whereabouts, one comes up dry, realizing this was all that there was, and nothing more. The other possibility is that this film was ghost-written by someone else more famous and for whatever reasons 'Tom Sierchio' was the name given credit for the screenwriting. This kind of thing does happen from time to time as David Mamet has kept his name off of a few films and other well-known writers and Writer-cum-celeb's have done the same. Until someone posts a message about 'Tom Sierchio', I'm going with the latter of the ideas.
Untamed Heart is probably the closing arc of Christian Slater's early career, what he does now is anybody's guess, but to say that he squandered his fame and his carte-blanche is an understatement. It's strange to imagine that he worked on this film directly after coming off the set of the violent and over-the-top True Romance. Most of the reviews here, and on other sites, like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb, all state that this film encapsulates Slater's best film performance by far. It's hard to disagree, even if you're a fan of Pump up The Volume, Heathers or True Romance. It's easy to be out of control, but harder to be serene, on camera or off. Just look how most people live their lives and consider how most people would like to live their lives.
The music is also stand out and signature. Several of the songs played will probably forever remind those that have seen this movie of Untamed Heart, Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner and Nat King Cole's Nature Boy are the most prevalent.
April 12, 2008
| | | This is a really great film!!! Sweet and romantic, and very cute, while being sad to! | |
| | | great story | |
| | | A VERY "REAL" ROMANTIC MOVIE! | |
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