Random Hearts - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[amber]

The simulated plane crash that starts this movie was so realistic that forty people called 911, convinced that it was a real disaster.

[tamara]

Based on the novel by Warren Adler, the movie rights were obtained soon after the novel's release in 1984. However, the movie then languished in "development hell" for fifteen years. In the 1980s, Dustin Hoffman was attached to star in this movie, but later withdrew as he did not like the earlier drafts of the script. By the 1990s, Kevin Costner was attached to star and James L. Brooks was attached to direct it, though this never came to fruition either. Eventually, Harrison Ford and producer and director Sydney Pollack showed interest in the project and it finally went into production.

[gerald]

The issue of The Washington Post that Dutch reads at home at the beginning of the movie is from Friday, September 18, 1998.

[russell]

Final theatrical release from Rastar, although founder Ray Stark had not produced a movie since Lost in Yonkers (1993). Its final production was the Disney Channel movie Alley Cats Strike (2000).

[phyllis]

M. Emmet Walsh and Harrison Ford appeared in Blade Runner (1982).

[nicholas]

In 1997, Harrison Ford and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas were announced to star in "Age of Aquarius", a romance set during the Bosnian War, directed by Phil Alden Robinson. Universal Pictures killed the project due to its inflating budget, and Ford and Thomas starred in this movie instead.

[caroline]

The 1984 novel by Warren Adler, on which this movie was based, was based on the January 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 plane crash into the Potomac River, flying out of National Airport, Washington, D.C.

[dustin]

Naval Air Station Patuxent River was used as a filming location. Harrison Ford and producer and director Sydney Pollack visited it. Ford, a certified pilot, flew the aircraft. Situated on a peninsula between the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay, N.A.S. Patuxent River is located on 6,400 acres of what was once prime farmland, consisting of several large farms, Mattapany, Susquehanna, and Cedar Point, as well as numerous tenant and sharecropper properties, and a few clusters of vacation houses. The Cedar Point community included several churches, a post office, and a gas station. Some of the old houses now serve as quarters for Navy personnel stationed there.

[ronnie]

The names of the main characters in the novel on which this movie was based are Edward and Vivien. This was likely changed for this movie as Edward and Vivien are well-known as the names of the main characters in Pretty Woman (1990).

[carla]

The neon in the "Parkway Lanes" sign had not worked for over twenty years. It was repaired by the production company. At night, the lit sign may be seen from the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway.

[jeffrey]

This movie must have had great personal relevance for producer and director Sydney Pollack. He lost his own son in a plane crash six years earlier.

[bessie]

This is the only movie in which Harrison Ford played a character who wears an earring, as Ford does in real life.

[leo]

The bowling alley scene was filmed at Parkway Lanes in Elmwood Park, New Jersey.

[jessica]

During production planning for this movie, the studio contacted American Airlines to request information about its "C.A.R.E. Team" in order to portray the movie airline's response team more accurately. American declined, seeing no upside in being associated with a movie about a crash.