Heart ** (1999, Saskia Reeves, Christopher Eccleston, Kate Hardie, Rhys Ifans, Anna Chancellor, Matthew Rhys) – Classic Movie Review 5806

Director Charles McDougall’s 1999 British psychological thriller is twisty and nasty, though not entirely unenjoyable.

It has a good setup but a surprisingly cheesy and shaky script considering that it is written by such an expert as Jimmy McGovern.

Christopher Eccleston plays a pilot called Gary who gets a transplant with a heart from a boy killed in a bike crash, whose crazed mum (Saskia Reeves) makes efforts to find Gary and his philandering wife (Kate Hardie).

At the end of the day, the script, though interesting, just doesn’t have it to be a page-turner or the movie to be a nail-biter.

It also stars Rhys Ifans, Anna Chancellor and Matthew Rhys.

Also in the cast are Jack Deam, Kate Rutter, Nicholas Moss, Bill Paterson, Paul Warriner, Maxine Burth, David Williamson, Alison Swann and Simon Molloy.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 5806

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