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Random Hearts (1999)

★ 5.6 · 419 ratings on TMDB

In a perfect world, they never would have met.

Random Hearts poster★ 5.6

After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.

DirectorSydney Pollack
CastCharles S. Dutton, Dennis Haysbert, Harrison Ford, Kate Mara, Kristin Scott Thomas, Peter Coyote
GenresDrama, Romance, Thriller
The emergence reading

Random Hearts keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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