Heart Condition

R

1990

1h 40m

Mystery & Thriller

Comedy

List

10%

Tomatometer

10 Reviews

34%

Audience Score

2,500+ Ratings

Racist police officer Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington), a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity (Chloe Webb). Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The movie is all over the map, trying whatever seems to work at the moment.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 1, 2000

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Hal Hinson

Washington Post

The film is caught somewhere between seriousness and cheesy exploitation.

Jan 1, 2000

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Juan Carlos Coto

Miami Herald

The movie seems over a good half-hour before it ends and is forgotten even more quickly.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 18, 2021

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Joe Leydon

The Moving Picture Show

A surprisingly engaging action-comedy-fantasy that places greater emphasis on high-caliber acting than rapid-fire shootouts.

Dec 28, 2020

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Daniel Barnes

Dare Daniel

A casually racist murder-mystery (minus the mystery) that was rejected by both audiences and critics due to a chaotic tone, insipid comedy beats and clunky action scenes set to slap-bass and scat-singing.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 12, 2019

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Nov 12, 2004

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Steve D

Plays bigotry for laughs while being too unpleasant for generate any.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

It is a decent film with funny moments. Serious too. I like that it deals with serious racial tones head on. And the transformation on a deplorable racists into a semblance of a human being.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Audience Member

The writing is all over the place. I couldn't figure out what's the point with the story, it continuously changes focus (and genres). It's saving grace are the two leads (Washington and Hopkins), specially Bob Hopkins, he's incredible as always. But, nothing can make this a good film. I wouldn't recommend watching this film, but I did enjoy parts of it.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

Funny hopeful orginal wholesomeness film.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Audience Member

Great movie, watched it many times, on VHS.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Audience Member

Surprised to see how lenient the reviews are... Yes these are two great actors but this is at best a mediocre movie. All over the place, can't decide what it's intended to be and too long. What a mess. Even great actors make mistakes sometimes!

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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James D. Parriott

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Bob Hoskins

Jack Moony

Denzel Washington

Napoleon Stone

Chloe Webb

Crystal Gerrity

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Ja'net DuBois

Mrs. Stone

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Synopsis

Racist police officer Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington), a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity (Chloe Webb). Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.

Director: James D. Parriott
Producer: Steve Tisch
Production Co: New Line Cinema
Rating: R
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 20, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.1M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Surround

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