Heart [1999]

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1999
Running Times: 84 mins 51 sec
Length: 7637 ft
Format: Technicolor
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Granada Film Productions / Mayfair Entertainment International / Merseyside Film Production Fund
Production Executive: Craig McNeil
Executive Producers: Pippa Cross, Mickey McGovern, Gub Neal
Co-Executive Producer: Janette Day
Producer: Nicola Shindler
Associate Producer: Bill Shephard
Production Manager: Peter Cotton
Production Coordinator: Tracy Lee

SCRIPT
Script: Jimmy McGovern
Script Associate: Catriona McKenzie

DIRECTION
Director: Charles McDougall
Assistant Directors: Emma Bodger, Barry Langley, Thomas Gabbutt, Jim Imber

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Julian Court
Camera Operator: Gordon Hayman
Aerial Camera Operators: Mike Parker, Adam Dale
Steadicam Operator: John Ward
Electrician: Wayne Mansell
Key Grip: Dickie Lee

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Edward Mansell
Assistant Editor: Chris Clarkson

MUSIC
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Music Performed By: John Parricelli [electric guitar], Tim Harries [bass], Paul Clarvis, Gary Kettel, Dave Hassle [percussion]
Songs: Earl Randle [I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Somebody's on Your Case]; Liam Coverdale-Howe, Chris Corner, Ian Pickering [Spin Spin Sugar; Roll On]; Richard McNevin-Cliff [Sugar Cane]; Burt Bacharach, Hal David [Anyone Who Had a Heart]; Isaac Hayes, David Porter [Wrap It Up]; Al Green [Tired of Being Alone]; Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson [Nothing Lasts Forever]; Al Jolson [When You're Smiling]; G. Peirce [Cop Shoot Cop]; David Johansen [Looking for a Kiss]; Joe Allison, Audrey Allison [He'll Have to Go]; Hope Sandoval, David Roback [Fade Into You]; Abrim Tilmon [Feel the Need in Me]; Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland, Sylvia Moy [This Old Heart of Mine]
Songs Performed By: Ann Peebles [I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Somebody's on Your Case]; Sneaker Pimps [Spin Spin Sugar; Roll On]; Space Monkeys [Sugar Cane]; Dionne Warwick [Anyone Who Had a Heart]; Sam and Dave [Wrap It Up]; Al Green [Tired of Being Alone]; Echo and the Bunnymen [Nothing Lasts Forever]; John McGuirk [When You're Smiling]; Spiritualized [Cop Shoot Cop]; New York Dolls [Looking for a Kiss]; Jim Reeves [He'll Have to Go]; Mazzy Star [Fade Into You]; Detroit Emeralds [Feel the Need in Me]
Conductor: Nick Ingman
Leader: Gavyn Wright
Music Supervisor: Bob Last
Music Coordinator: Heather Bownass
Music Recording Engineer: Mark Tucker

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Phil Smith
Boom Operator: Graham Etchells
Re-Recording Mixers: John Whitworth, Andy Wyatt
Assistant Sound Editor: Elizabeth Price
Dialogue Editor: Mark Briscoe
ADR Editor: Graham Lawrence
ADR Artist: Alan Rothwell
Sound Effects Editor: John Senior
Foley Artists: Jenny Lee Wright, Ruth Sullivan
Foley Editor: Rocky Phelan

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Ruth Quinn
Assistant Make Up Designer: Janita Doyle
Assistant Make Up: Juliette Jackson, Rowena Deane
Costume Designer: James Keast
Wardrobe Supervisor: Michael Johnson
Wardrobe Assistant: Liz Roberts

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Heart Special Effects: Animated Extras
Special Effects: Graham Longhurst, Graham Hills, Geoff Hood

VISUAL EFFECTS
Special Visual Effects: Mill Film Limited [London]
Executive Producer: Mickey McGovern
Visual Effects Coordinator: Robert Delicata
3D Supervisor: David Lomax
3D Animator: Tim Zaccheo
2D Compositing Supervisor: Karl Mooney
2D Compositors: Hani Alyousif, Nick Seresin
Technical Supervisor: Martin Parsons
Technical Assistance: Dave Early, Marilyn Anderson, Nick Atkinson
Titles / Opticals: General Screen Enterprises

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Stuart Walker, Chris Roope
Art Directors: Diane Dancklefsen, Sue Booth
Stand-By Art Director: Anita Gupta
Props Master: Mike Malik
Construction Manager: Dennis Henshaw
Graphics: Lucy Bryan, Mike Sergeant
Art Department Assistants: Janice Flint, Sandra Quayle

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Helen E. Moran
Researcher: Maria Grimley
Surgical Procedure Adviser: David Lawrence
Medical Equipment Adviser: Andrew Dade
Taxidermist: Ian Bryers
Armourer: Tony O'Connor
Animals: Animals OK
Helicopter Pilot: David Arkell
Aeroplane Pilot: Chris Heywood

LOCATIONS
Locations: Manchester, England, UK
Location Manager: Tom Sherry

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Terry Forrestal
Stunts: Chris Cade, Jamie Edgell, Lucy Allen, Paul Heasman, Ray De-Haan, Sy Hollands, Tom Delmar

CASTING
Casting: Simone Ireland, Vanessa Pereira, Beverley Keogh
Additional Casting: David Shaw

CAST
Saskia Reeves [Maria Ann McCardle]
Christopher Eccleston [Gary Ellis]
Kate Hardie [Tess Ellis]
Rhys Ifans [Alex Madden]
Anna Chancellor [Nicola Farmer]
Matthew Rhys [Sean McCardle]
Jack Deam [policeman]
Kate Rutter [headmistress]
Nicholas Moss [doctor]
Bill Paterson [Mr Kreitman]
Paul Warriner [surgeon]
Maxine Burth [anaesthetist]
David Williamson [profusionist]
Alan Eccleston [Alan Ellis]
Alison Swann [Kathy]
Simon Molloy [judge]
John Graham-Davies [diner]
John McGurk [singer in pub]
Fine Time Fontayne, Stephen Walters [security men]
David Crellin [patient]

SUMMARY

Ailing Gary is given a new heart when Sean is killed in a motorbike accident. But Sean's obsessed mother Maria tracks Gary down and starts stalking him, determined to stay close to the only surviving part of her late son.

AVAILABILITY

France
Theatrical Distributors: Mars Distribution

Spain
Theatrical Distributors: Sherlock Media S.L.

UK
Theatrical Distributors: Feature Film Company

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

France
Rating: -12

Germany
Rating: 16

Spain
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: 18

TIMELINE

1999
May
6: Germany – theatrical release

June
11: Spain, UK – theatrical release

July
21: France – theatrical release

October
16: Japan – theatrical release

2000
April
11: Iceland - video release

POSTER TAGS

Life and death are just a pulse apart.

Warning: Jealousy can seriously damage your health

Warning: Jealousy Seriously Damages Your Health

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Corazón – Spanish title
Heart - Jeder kann sein Herz verlieren – German title
Mort clinique – French / French Canadian title

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Empire July 1999 P.23 [UK]
review [by Andrew Collins]

Entertainment Weekly no.638 [8 February 2002] p.57 [USA]
review [by Erin Richter]

epd Film vol.16 no.5 [1 May 1999] pp.45-46 [Germany]
review [by Heike-Melba Fendel]

Sight and Sound June 1999 [UK]
credits, synopsis, review

Total Film July 1999 p.84 [UK]
review [by Cam Winstanley]

Variety vol.375 no.6 [21 June 1999] pp.76-77 [USA]
review [by Derek Elley]

KEYWORDS

adultery, aircraft, ambulances, boxing, cemeteries, doctors, drugs, elevators, flashbacks, funerals, hearts, helicopters, hospitals, incest, judges, lawnmowers, nurses, obsession, organ donors, showers, suicide, surgery, twist endings, wheelchairs, writers

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007