
Desert Hearts
1985


“4 friends, 2 couples. Twice as much to lie about in the morning.”
74 votes
A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
Director
Julie DavisWriter
Streaming availability for India
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Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$1.1M
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I think you have to suspend quite a bit of reality to get anything from this rather contrived story, but there are some quite familiar faces peppering the scenes as we tell, retrospectively via two conversations, of the erratic courtship of “Eli” (writer Dan Bucatinsky) and the alcoholic hunk “Tom” (Richard Ruccolo). They are brought together by the recently hooked up “Jackie” (Sasha Alexander) and “Brent” (Adam Goldberg) but it isn’t the most auspicious of starts. Indeed, after their first date you’d have got better odds on the Danube really being blue. Circumstance and their friends don’t gi…
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