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Release Date • USA: Jun 13, 2003 • UK: 21 Nov 2002 DVD Release Date • R1: Feb 17, 2004
Budget $7,000,000
MPAA Rating Rated R for some sexuality.
Running Time 1 hour, 36 minutes
Country UK, Germany
Studio Isle of Man Film Commission, Martin Pope Productions, Pandora, Take 3
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Other Titles • The Heart of Me
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Love Triangle, Period Piece, Love, World War II, Marriage, Infidelity
Plot: Upper crust England before, during, and after WWII provides the backdrop for THE HEART OF ME, a richly emotional drama about the seductive -- and destructive -- nature of passion. A classic romantic triangle, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Williams as sisters Dinah and Madeleine, and Paul Bettany as Rickie, Madeleine's husband, who finds himself drawn to his darkly beautiful, bohemian sister-in-law. Torn between two women, one who always plays by the rules and one who always breaks them, Rickie risks everything by falling into a clandestine affair with Dinah. What follows is more than a decade of deception, betrayal, and manipulation during which Rickie's carefully constructed world falls apart and he is all but destroyed by love. Over the years, the two sisters wage a fierce battle for his heart that exposes their vast differences as well as their surprising bonds.A sumptuously mounted vision of an all-but-vanished world, in which appearances and propriety govern every relationship, THE HEART OF ME is based on the 1953 best-seller, "The Echoing Grove," by noted novelist Rosamond Lehmann (and loosely based on her illicit affair with Poet Laureate, C. Day Lewis). Intricately structured as a progression of post-war flashbacks that gradually reveal a host of
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 | Paul Bettany
A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
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The Lost World, Warriors, Public Enemies | | |
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Nicholas Hooper
The Girl in the Café, The Young Visiters, Messiah III: The Promise | |
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