Playing by Heart, a dramedy about lovelorn couples, plays like a short-attention-span ''Hannah and Her Sisters.'' As in Woody Allen's masterpiece, three sisters link multiple stories, but this film switches between couples after every scene -- resulting in narrative whiplash. Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands fare the best as parents grappling with a long-forgotten indiscretion; Angelina Jolie and Ryan Phillippe find romance in clubland; Gillian Anderson and Jon Stewart tiptoe toward love. Yet with relationship patter that sounds like acting-class exercises, almost none of these stories feel true.
BOND...ROMANTIC BOND Veterans Connery and Rowlands add heft to the fluttery romantic fare in ''Heart''
EW's GRADE
C-Details Movie Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; With: Gillian Anderson, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Connery, Anthony Edwards and Angelina Jolie...; Distributor: Miramax
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