Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999 film)

Don't Go Breaking My Heart is a 1999 British film, starring Anthony Edwards, Jenny Seagrove and Charles Dance. It was directed by Willi Patterson.

Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Film Poster
Directed byWilli Patterson
Produced byBill Kenwright
Written byGeoff Morrow
Starring
Music byRolfe Kent
CinematographyVernon Layton
Edited byPeter Beston
Production
company
Aviator Films
Bill Kenwright Films
Distributed byBWE Distribution Inc.
Curb Entertainment
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Release date
  • 12 February 1999 (1999-02-12)
(UK)
Running time
95 min.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7,000,000 (estimated)[1]
Box office£961,609 (UK) (28 February 1999)[2]

Plot

Suzanne, a beautiful widow, has to choose between Frank, a philandering dentist, and Tony, a sensitive, failing sports trainer who helps her son.

Cast

Production Notes

Dr. Fiedler played by Tom Conti is a parody of Dr Fassbender played by Peter Sellers in the movie What's New Pussycat?.[3]

Bill Kenwright had to mortgage his own £1 million London home to pay for its production. Geoff Morrow who wrote the screenplay also wrote the 1977-hit Can't Smile Without You. Despite being second billed, Linford Christie only makes a short cameo appearance in the pre-credit scene of the film.[4]

Reception

Julianne Pidduck from Sight & Sound praised several aspects of the film, however she concluded: " But despite all efforts, an uninspired script and uneven direction fail to make Suzanne's unhappy lurches from mourning widow to tender lover plausible."[5]

References
  1. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Budget". IMDB. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  2. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Budget". IMDB. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  3. "Connections". IMDB. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  4. "Trivia". IMDB. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  5. Pidduck, Julianne. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2017.


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