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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 6538
Released: January 9, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny) and Christian Slater (Murder in the First) deliver brilliant performances in this touchingly honest and beautifully crafted modern-day romance. Co-starring Rosie Perez (White Men Can't Jump), who lends her own unique brand of energy and talent, Untamed Heart's heart is in the right place (Roger Ebert, 'siskel & Ebert ).Tomei portrays Caroline, a diner waitress who is consistently (and miserably) unlucky in love. Slater is Adam, the diner's reclusive busboy who harbors a secret crush on Caroline, yet is too shy to speak to her. But all that changes one cold night when Caroline finds herself in a life-threatening situation on her walk home and Adam appears out of the shadows to rescue her. Intrigued by her unlikely knight in shining armor, Caroline tenderly breaks through to his lonely world. Together, the two forge a bond of trust and understanding that ultimately blossoms into one of cinema's most unforgettable love stories.
Description of Untamed Heart:
If you're a die-hard romantic with a soft spot for three-hanky weepers, this well-acted love story from 1993 will be just what the doctor ordered. It's about a waitress named Caroline (Marisa Tomei) who works the graveyard shift in a Minneapolis diner, where the silent, introverted Adam (Christian Slater) works as a dishwasher and janitor. Only Caroline manages to bring the solitary Adam out of his shell, and when he rescues her from an assault, their tentative friendship slowly blossoms into mutual trust and love. Adam has a weak heart and desperately needs a heart transplant, but a story told to him by orphanage nuns--that he was raised in the jungle with the powerful heart of a baboon--makes him feel invincible. This sets the stage for a tender and tragic love story that director Tony Bill handles as a delicate balance of blue-collar reality and misty-eyed fairy tale, and the quiet chemistry between Tomei and Slater makes it work. If you don't get a little choked up by the movie's heartfelt conclusion, you just might need a heart transplant yourself. --Jeff Shannon
Untamed Heart Reviews:
The Best Most Realistic Love Story Of All Time 
2009-11-06 - My mother bought me this movie for my 15th birthday back in 1994 and the moment I discovered the story and Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater's Chemistry in this movie I was totally and utterly hooked. Tomei and Slater give the most sublime chemistry together ever in such a tender hearted love story that I have ever seen in any romantic movie. No other love story can tops this realistic romance and loving chemistry between these two characters portrayed by Tomei and Slater. Slater is every woman's dream man in this movie. So gentle,charming and heroic, what woman wouldn't fall for Slater's characer in this film. (The way he secretly follows her in the shadows to protect her, beats to a pulp any thug who messes with her and carries her to safety and stays by her side to make sure she is ok).The story and its characters are completely and undeniably touching, moving and beautiful. Slater's Adam is such a rare knight in shining armor that you don't find in everyday life unless you are blessed with that certain lucky fate to find him and have him find you. This movie will certainly move your heart and spirits in a way that no other love story can. It most definitely is a moonbeam of a love story. Go buy yourself a copy today and see for yourself and I think you will absolutely agree.
ONE OF THE BEST ROMANCES IN SEVERAL DECADES
2009-10-08 - Christian Slater was never better than in this quietly moving little romance, and Marisa Tomei was simply wonderful as an unlucky-in-love waitress that is the object of his affections. Rosie Perez in a fine supporting role lends some spice to this sweet ( though not pathetically, syrupy ) tear-jerker, and helps to lighten the mood of the film. I am on my third incarnation of this warmly delicious, seldom predictable, unpretentious, and amazingly effective love story.
The chemistry between Tomei, and Slater is palpable, the character's are quirky, funny, and often poignant.
Disappointed 
2009-05-29 - I was very disappointed when I sat down to watch the VHS that I purchased. The VHS was advertised as "very good," but right after the movie started playing the tracking was all messed up and we couldn't fix it. We couldn't watch it. I'm very disappointed. When we received it, it wasn't rewound and the box was all beat up.
Bittersweet love story with plenty of heart. 
2009-05-16 - Couldn't resist the pun there:) This is an old-time bittersweet love story that tugs at one's heartstrings. Marisa Tomei plays waitress Caroline, who can't seem to find a nice guy. The ones she does date are jerks, using her as one-night stands, and she can't fathom why she's treated so badly. One night, one her way home from work, Carolina is attacked by two guys who had earlier met her at the diner she works in - fortunately, Adam the busboy from the diner [Christian Slater] happens along and rescues her.
Adam is a bit of a recluse - he hardly ever speaks, and maintains a low profile at the diner. Initially Caroline keeps her distance from him, but eventually gets drawn to Adam's sweet and vulnerable disposition and discovers that Adam is drawn to her too. Thus two rather emotionally stunted people reach out to each other and find a real connection that transcends everything else. However [as in many classic love stories], the pair's happiness is threatened by outside factors beyond their control and the rest of the movie deals with this.
I felt that Marisa Tomei's performance as the emotionally vulnerable Caroline was spot-on, eliciting one's sympathy whilst also being frustrated by her lack of real goals in life. Christian Slater [who also delivered a compelling performance in "Bed of Roses"] is subtle and credible in his portrayal as the quiet and unassuming Adam who has spent the greater part of his life hiding his true emotions, but whose love for Caroline [and her love for him], brings him alive. The leads are convincing in their roles and the chemistry between the pair is credible too. Speaking of performances, Rosie Perez delivers a good turn as Caroline's sharp-tongued fellow waitress and best friend.
"Untamed Heart" is a bitterweet love story that will appeal to fans of romance dramas.
Great movie!
2009-04-19 - Great movie! This is one of the best love stories I have ever seen! :)
