One from the Heart
Directed by	Francis Ford Coppola
Produced by	Gray Frederickson Fred Roos
Written by	Armyan Bernstein Francis Ford Coppola
Starring	Frederic Forrest Teri Garr
Music by	Teddy Edwards Tom Waits
Cinematography	Vittorio Storaro Ronald Víctor García
Editing by	Rudi Fehr Anne Goursaud Randy Roberts
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	February 12, 1982
Running time	107 min.
Language	English
Budget	$26,000,000
IMDb profile

One from the Heart is a 1982 musical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is set entirely in Las Vegas, on the Las Vegas Strip and the desert surrounding the city. Though the film realistically evokes the feeling of being on the busy Las Vegas Strip, there were no location shots used in the film, it shot on studio sound stages with the single exception of one space on the backlot for a 'Las Vegas junkyard' set, described by a character in the film as being 'the garden of the Taj Mahal'. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (483x755, 92 KB) film poster for One from the Heart source: impawards. ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Fred Roos (May 22, 1934, Santa Monica, California) is a noted American film producer. ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Frederic Forrest (born December 23, 1936 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American actor. ... Teri Garr (born December 11, 1944 in Lakewood, Ohio) is a United States actor. ... Theodore Marcus Teddy Edwards (April 26, 1924 – April 20, 2003) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist based on the West Coast of the US. Edwards was born in Jackson, Mississippi. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... Vittorio Storaro (born 24 June 1940 in Rome, Italy) is a Italian cinematographer. ... Rudi Fehr (July 6, 1911 - April 16, 1999) was a film editor whose credits include House of Wax (1953), I Confess (1953), Dial M for Murder (1954), and John Huston-directed Prizzis Honor (1985). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... This article is about the city of Las Vegas in Nevada. ... The south end of The Strip. ... A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constructed on a studio backlot or soundstage. ... Taj Mahal The Tāj Mahal (Hindi: ; Persian/Urdu: تاج محل) is a monument located in Agra, India, at 27° 1028. ...

The extraordinary cost of the production of this film would lead to Coppola's declaring bankruptcy. Originally intended as a small film after the enormous cost, pressures and production problems of Apocalypse Now, One from the Heart rapidly ballooned from a projected budget of $2 million to over $25 million. Rather than shooting on location, Coppola insisted on building sets, to add to the artificiality of the proscenium. Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American film about a soldiers journey during the Vietnam War. ...

Set construction proceeded to such an extent that a replica of Las Vegas' McCarran Airport - complete with a jetway and jet airliner (built from the nose section of a crashed plane) - was built and used for the penultimate scene. The sets for the film consumed the entirety of soundstage space at Coppola's recently-acquired American Zoetrope studio. Because of the maze of wiring and flammable scrims, backdrops and other materials, Dean Tavoularis half-jokingly referred to the Vegas Strip set - the centerpiece of the film - as a "firetrap", saying it caused him to have "nightmares about fires" during the film's production. American Zoetrope is the name of the studios founded by Francis Ford Coppola, named after a collection of zoetropes he was given in the late 1960s by filmmaker and collector of early motion picture making equipment, Mogens Skot-Hansen. ...

In terms of his career, Coppola has stated that the films he made during the rest of the 1980s and most of the 1990s, such as The Outsiders, The Cotton Club, Jack and The Rainmaker, were done to pay off the debts incurred by the production of One from the Heart. The Outsiders is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, and was made in 1983 by Francis Ford Coppola. ... The Cotton Club is a movie, released in 1984, centered around a popular real-life Harlem jazz club in the 1930s, the Cotton Club. ... Jack movie poster Jack is a 1996 film starring Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, and Bill Cosby. ... The Rainmaker is also a 1995 novel by John Grisham that was made into a 1997 motion picture starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes and Jon Voight. ...

One from the Heart features an original soundtrack from Crystal Gayle and Tom Waits. Waits received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score. Dean Tavoularis, whose art department was next door to the musical rehearsal space, used Tom Waits' music as tonal inspiration which was incorporated into the film's highly-stylized 'look'. Mickey Hart, drummer for The Grateful Dead, and musician Bobby Vega were also credited for their contributions to the production. Crystal Gayle (born January 9, 1951) is a country music and pop music singer. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born September 11, 1943) is known as one of the two drummers from the rock band the Grateful Dead. ... Jerry Garcia later in life The Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ...

Public reaction

The film played to near empty cinemas on its release, but many of those who did make the effort to see it have become life-long fans. Its dream-like quality, the downbeat, realistic nature of Tom Waits lyrics and the touching vulnerability of both leading actors are its virtues. Notably it has none of the frothiness and endless beaming grins one comes to expect from musicals like the Sound of Music or Grease. For those that do not like the film, and there are many, the artificiality of the sets, mixed with the ordinary nature of the story and its two leading actors are key objections. Due to its low popularity the release of a DVD was left until only a few years ago. However many fans of the film object to cuts made for this DVD release.

Cast

• Frederic Forrest as Hank
• Teri Garr as Frannie
• Raúl Juliá as Ray
• Nastassja Kinski as Leila
• Lainie Kazan as Maggie
• Harry Dean Stanton as Moe

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External links

• One from the Heart at the Internet Movie Database
• One from the Heart at Rotten Tomatoes

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