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An ensemble piece about friendship and love, trust and betrayal
release date: May 2000 starting in New Yorkby Kulturinfo (Switzerland) and Kinoprogramm (Germany)
"Into My Heart" begins with a suicide but ends in redemption.
While the present-day action concentrates on the immediate,
emotional fall-out of a devastating death, these scenes are
interspersed with a series of flashbacks that explain and re-inforce
the relationships unfolding on-screen.
In "Into My Heart", the past is as important as the present. It's a
story about loss and survival, about old relationships and buried
emotions.
Adam (Jake Weber) and Ben (Rob Morrow) are childhood
friends. The sons of East Coast affluence, they attend boarding
school and Columbia together. At Columbia, the idealistic Adam meets
the love of his life, Nina (Claire Forlani), a beautiful young
woman from the same social milieu. Their love is instantaneous and
passionate. After some initial resistance, Ben accepts the addition
of Nina and the two become fast friends, linked by their love for the
quirky, intense Adam.
After graduating, Adam begins a career as a freelance journalist,
while Nina enrols in graduate school, studying art history. Ben
attends Stanford Law School, where he meets Kat (Jayne Brook),
a Marin County go-getter. Together they return to New York, where Ben
begins working for a high-powered corporate law firm and Kat takes a
job as an assistant to the Mayor. The addition of Kat seems to round
out the balance of the old trio.
There are happy weekends spent by the two couples up at Adam's family
house, a rambling Colonial in the Berkshires. But tensions soon
begins to develop within the two relationships. Faultlines appear.
And when Ben impulsively kisses Nina on a walk together one Fall
afternoon, a fragile trust begins to crumble. Ben and Nina begin an
affair that will end in destroying the man they both love.
Suicide is an irrational act and as such, difficult to explain. When
one man may lash out, another will punish himself. When he's betrayed
by the two people he trusted snd loved most, Adam's world is
shattered. He truly feels he has no reason to go on living. In the
aftermath of his death, Ben and Nina's affair ends and Ben's marriage
to Kat is mortally wounded. Yet the story ends in hope. When Ben and
Nina meet again by accident on a wintry New York Streer corner, it's
clear they've learned from their tragic mistake. They can go on, but
there's no going back. Because, like their youth, Adam is gone
forever.
The reason why the movie is starting out so late in the US is that
the movie was (mostly) produced by a French company.
So the movie was first released in France and Germany and will be
released now in the US too.