Trailer
Plot summary
Hank and Frannie have been a couple in Las Vegas for five years, and Independence Day is their anniversary. Hank works as a mechanic and Frannie at a travel agency. Their evening begins with excitement and then turns into an argument about their life together. Frannie is frustrated by Hank's lack of spontaneity and by a routine she finds stagnant, and she wants adventure. Hank is content with the way things are, and he has just bought a house for the two of them without consulting her first. As the argument grows, the two break up and Frannie storms out of the home they share.
Cast
- Jeff Hamlinas Airline Ticket Agent
- Italia Coppolaas Couple in Elevator
- Edward Blackoffas Understudy
- James Deanas Understudy
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One from the Heart (1981)
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- Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro asked Francis Ford Coppola to shoot One from the Heart more conventionally, so Coppola agreed rather than fire him, a decision he later called his life's biggest regret.
- For the film's penultimate scene, the crew built a replica of part of Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport, complete with a jetway and a jet airliner made from the nose section of a crashed plane.
- Gene Kelly was a dance consultant on the sequence with Teri Garr and Raúl Juliá, but he and Coppola disagreed over what the dance should portray; the 2003 restoration finally used Kelly's idea.
- As Zoetrope Studios struggled, its staff worked on a reduced payroll for One from the Heart, the film's tax-shelter investors pulled out and MGM withdrew its support for the project.
- On One from the Heart, Francis Ford Coppola introduced "electronic cinema": shooting and editing a visual storyboard on videotape so he had a reference while shooting on film.
- The commercial failure of One from the Heart brought Francis Ford Coppola and his production companies a decade of financial turmoil.
