Listen to Your Heart

Plot synopsis:
The film begins in a singles bar. Frannie (Kate Jackson) has just ended a six-month affair with her boss. She is brought to the singles bar club, wanting to try casual affairs, by her close friend Stacey (Cassie Yates). Meanwhile, Josh (Tim Matheson) is dragged there by his friend Marvin (Will Nye), who wants to have a few flings before marriage. The two women send a waitress over to them who then responds "The two, right over there, want that you should join them."
Then Frannie and Josh go to his place, but no affection happens. Frannie wakes up the next day in her apartment, drunk. Unfortunately, she has to move to Stacey's apartment. As the two develop a relationship, it is found that Franne is a co-worker with Josh. The movie deals with them working in the same office and maintaining a relationship.

Tags: romantic

Review:
The fact that the main characters are primarily unknown makes the story feel more real and you feel so connected to the characters.
He made the music for this movie and incorporated the songs into the story.
My wife is deaf and I am hearing and this movie hits so many moments that I can relate to.
So watch this movie.
What an excellent movie...I experienced all emotions when watching it.
It made me feel like nothing is impossible, that you have to fight for what you want and believe in and don't let anyone or anything get in your way!!
It is a movie that I will definitely watch again and highly recommend!!
I was very sad with some of the parts of the movie but the way the writer wrote it, you were able to feel happiness right after your tears.
The actors did an excellent job as well, its really hard to say anymore without there being spoilers so I guess all I can say is watch the movie, grab a box of Kleenex and live each and every day to the fullest!!!.
I know this movie may be stereotypical or cliché'...
Movies can be a variety of things from fantasy to real life portrayal.
And I feel sad for those who did not think fondly of this movie because it's not about what or how the movie is done but the message and moral it is trying to demonstrate.In regards to the deaf culture (someone else mentioned about ASL and the interpreter)...
The movie is not meant to share with the world about the deaf community, but rather the effort that the hearing world should try to understand.
It's a matter of being objective than subjective to the world around us.With regards to the movie and sign language...
you get the idea...If only you can understand the meaning of the movie and try to put yourself into their emotions and feelings...
Movie with a great message!.
This was a movie that really makes you stop and think about life, love and the choices we make in our lives.
Danny, the lead male character....well, you can't help but fall in love with.
I think the actor did a great job portraying this character.
It's a perfect date night movie or feel good movie to watch over the weekend!.
I saw this movie just last night and I absolutely loved it.
Now the actress who plays the female lead, is so cute and beautiful and gorgeous, but not just that...throughout the movie, she just does such a beautiful job at connecting and developing her relationship with the male lead.
I basically just loved how they were both really nice people, very sweet individuals, they weren't criminals or anything, it was such a sweet story.
I would love to see her do more romance films, or even bigger films too, I see a lot of great potential for the both of them.
There is a potentially great movie here but....
The scenes between the two (particularly in the first half) are believable and they tell a great story together.Unfortunately, heavy handed plot choices (particularly the controlling mother and the second half plot turn) undermine everything built in the first 50 minutes.
It's trying to pull off what "Once" did so well but the songs simply aren't up to the task.This story and these actors deserved better..
Ariana (Alexia Rasmussen) is a deaf sheltered 21 year old under the control of her domineering mother Victoria (Cybill Shepherd).
When her mother discovers the relationship, she tries to separate them.The young leads are photogenic and appealing.
Cybill Shepherd comes into this movie too hard and doesn't have the nuance.
There is a big difference between this indie and the best music indies like Once.
I don't know Kent Moran's musical history but it can't be that great.
Usually I trust IMDb ratings but this one was above 7 stars and after watching 3/4 of the movie.
The acting isn't great but in the beginning I don't think anyone really needs to act very hard.
But then as the plot moves along, the acting gets worse and then the plot takes a nosedive using cliché plot lines and bad acting to bring it to a cliché love story closing.
As I watched this film it brings you closer to the characters and you go on a roller- coaster ride of emotions even as a man I cried,esp since my wife is going through cancer to so I can relate to some of the storyline.to the director actors and producer it was a very nice film.I esp liked the touch and affection that was showed toward Nicole who was deaf but how also how love can conquer all,if only people are linked together for the right reasons.another thing that touched me was the act of kindness shown to the guy on the street selling papers to make a living as that is what life is like in the real world I guess with the $500 he was given he bought himself a new suit.if only the girl had of got her man she over come obstacles for would it have been nice to see.
But I guess that was not the object of the film overall as said previously a good watchful film..
No matter how well or badly one thinks of this story, the entire film suffers by the falseness of the portrayal of deafness.
The lead actress is clearly not deaf and her signing is terrible at best.
Just saw "Listen to Your Heart" and I totally agree with stupididiotic from United States and with eloith-fay from Australia: "terrible lines and the music was just disgusting"; "Everything is so terribly clichéd and the acting isn't all that great";"The whole story line is juvenile and elementary";" It is clumsy, naive, overstated, lacks subtlety.
The lyrics to the songs lack poetry, like reading dull prose.I found the acting unconvincing at best" One of the few positives about this movie is Alexia Rasmussen,she's such a sweetheart!But the fact that she smiles(and after that she sheds some crocodile/fake tears) in many scenes which are dealing with death...I find this disgusting and this is just one of the many reasons I believe this movie is of low quality.As for all of those annoying,inferior quality,sad singing scenes that pop up often during the movie..they are worthy of a better cause!Certainly not a masterpiece this one!
But Alexia Rasmussen is so gorgeous to the point that it makes the movie seem not as bad as it is,actually..
All in all, I did not like this film.Don't waste your time watching it..
Everything is so terribly clichéd and the acting isn't all that great, the line delivery leaves much to be desired.
I'm not too familiar with sign language, but even I could tell the main actress (who is deaf) is not very good at it.
The whole story line is juvenile and elementary, and not to mention Danny's character's singing.
A real Love Story.
Wow - a very real story of love and wanting.
This movie tells a real story of love, slow and sure and deep and all that true love is.
If you want to relive the memories of your first love, grab some popcorn or good chocolate and get ready to see it all again.
Several kissing scenes and a tiny amount of skin - but teach your kids what true love is with this movie and they will never settle for second best.
Though this is not a big budget film, it plays like the big ones.
Probably don't remember me but I was the girl that watch your movie in time square and it rained my husband with me and we never saw the end.
Love is love.....It's all crazy but me and my husband David like to go downtown.so we live in Yonkers and we decided "what we would today" i don't know what to do, a little bit of this, go with the wind.
Listen to your heart is now one of my all-time favorite movies.
This movie doesn't seem that unusual until you work through the last 30 minutes and begin to realize what the true message is.
This is a movie you must WATCH, not just let it play on as you are doing something else.
If you truly "get it", this movie will change how YOU live your life..
Great movie.
Both the cast/crew and writing teams did a phenomenal job with the story portrayed in this movie.
The summary, "A singer/songwriter falls in love with a girl who can't hear the music she inspires him to write." was absolutely perfect in making the story about their love and not the conditions they live their lives in.
Listen to Your Heart was one of the best independent films I have ever watched and I would recommend it to everyone..
I wanted to like this film....
I really wanted to like this movie - I rented it with high hopes while I was sick.
Unfortunately, the more I watched, the less I liked.My main issue is the clichés.
You've got your controlling mother with the evil smile who wants her daughter to date her social equal.
And the not-so-secretly drunk boss who has a kind heart but a failing business.Then there are your leads, Danny and Ariana/Sam. Danny has a heart of gold; he buys the newspaper every day from a street person but never reads it.
Sam is deaf, which in itself I don't consider a cliché, but her sheltered life because of it is.Danny and Sam meet, fall in love, and conduct an innocent yet clandestine relationship until Mommy Dearest finds out.Said mother then contrives to keep them apart while her own assistant sabotages those efforts.
Somehow, Danny and Sam find their way back to each other, just in time for...SPOILER ALERT!...Danny to be diagnosed with end-stage brain cancer.
I realize from reading this site that Kent Moran wrote this screenplay in tribute to his young cousin who did die of cancer, and I don't mean to take anything away from that, but that should have been a different movie.
In this one, it felt like it was just thrown in near the end because he didn't feel like the movie could stand on its own without someone tragically dying young.
The cancer angle makes this seem like two movies in one, and that's not necessarily a good thing.As if that wasn't enough clichés, Sam gets cochlear implants (another thing her mother tried to prevent in order to maintain control of her daughter) and the first thing of consequence she hears are wails of grief at Danny's bedside.And the music.
The lyrics are what I might expect to hear from a seventh-grade poetry class.I'm sorry to say this movie was manipulative, trite, and predictable; the only thing I didn't predict was that it would be this disappointing.
The acting is unfortunately sub par as well.I am not usually this harsh when discussing a movie because I feel bad for those responsible for bringing it to the screen.
I know it would make ME feel awful to read a review ripping MY work to shreds.
I realize that there are a lot of people who will love this movie, and that's fine.
Starring Cybill Shepherd as an over-the-top villainous mother, the story centers around an unlikely romance between a rich deaf girl and a poor waiter.Of course, you're thinking- aren't all unlikely-romance movies terrible?
It's much worse than you could imagine.The dialog falls into three categories- ridiculous 'heartwarming' stories (there's one about stealing duck eggs), cheesy one-liners, and Cybill Shepherd shouting insanity at other characters.
While one character is deaf, the film could be improved if all characters were mute.Music is a recurring theme throughout the story, and the main character is supposed to be a talented singer-songwriter.
This conceit wears thin, as the main character sings off-key, and the lyrics, such as they are, will make you beg for death.Yet the true fatal flaw of the film is the outlandish plot.
Whether it's Cybill punishing her daughter for resisting a rapist she sent (!!!), or a main character developing sudden onset incurable brain cancer, everything about the movie is unbearable.
I liked this movie, as a cute, though not particularly deep, romance...
A sweet initial plot of a young musician who falls for a deaf girl who is cruelly sheltered by a controlling mother, this movie appeared to be a light romance.
However, this movie had a tragically sad ending, with one of the main characters dying young of cancer.
If you are, like I was,looking for a light romantic movie, be warned!
My husband and I have both lost people we love from cancer, and this was not a movie we would have chosen if we had known!
This movie reminded me of a personal experience.
In this movie Listen to your Heart, I really enjoyed it for the most part as far as the romance between Danny and Ariana.
It's a good thing that Ariana kicked that bastard in the you know what.
Overall as far as the heartless bitch of a mother, I felt like someone needed to stick a harpoon in her ass.
Plus, Ariana hardly talked with her voice throughout the movie.
Anyways, when she and Danny finally got a chance to see each other again, he ends up with brain cancer.
When she got a chance to see Danny again, it was over just like that.
Like I told my mother it hurt me a lot more than it hurt her.
Anyways, I love the scene when Ariana put a flower next to Danny's grave and so did her mother because I believe that the mother realized that she made a mistake and that she had been selfish with her.
After she gave her daughter her necklace back and hugged her, I think it was a sign that she has her own life to live now.
The film makes you look to the life and the value and how you can live every moment in which,,,, and makes you try to restore your accounts in this life and thanks God everything and you enjoy the things denied to many, however they live their lives like you and they can be, enjoying it more you This movie really made ​​me look at my life,,, Do I really listened to my heart????
There is actually a film could change your life and this film of this type Without that I feel and I'm watching a movie and have found tears filled my face, especially when in the hospital Sam said to Danny I love you,,,,, Without a doubt I think this film is the greater..
I have watched three quarters of this movie and will waste not a second longer.
This is the worst made movie I have seen in living memory.
The lyrics to the songs lack poetry, like reading dull prose.I found the acting unconvincing at best, I found myself trying to believe it, trying to be involved - it was hard work watching this.
When he was supposedly despairing, or at least sad about his girlfriends rejection, there was no depth of emotion at all in his acting, nor in his music.Sorry I can't be any more positive, I love a well made movie, and simply don't appreciate a bad one.
Her mother orders for her, Danny doesn't think too much of this, maybe the girl is just shy, but we know that she is deaf.
Her mother is over-protective and tries to dictate all aspects of Ariana's life, even though she is now 21.Cybill Shepherd, who had a very rocky start in her own career, is the controlling mother, Victoria.
So the movie is about deaf Ariana working loose of her mother's control, while finding love in this nice guy, the musician and aspiring song writer.
There are ups and downs but overall a fairly predictable resolution.Saw it on Netflix streaming movies.SPOILER: Danny gets sick and it turns out he has brain cancer.
Before he dies he inspires Ariana to get the implant that will allow her to hear, something her mother wouldn't allow earlier.
So he dies, but her hearing lives, the movie ends as she is experiencing the beautiful sounds of the world around her for the first time..
Everyone giving the bad reviews obviously haven't listened to their hearts before or just forgot how to.
Message of the story: every day that we have is beautiful, enjoy it unlike so many that just take it for granted.
I personally would've titled the film "Listen with Your Heart" but either way still a great film that will probably bring some tears..
when I watched the movie ، I realized that everybody can be in love.
Ariana that did not know that fall in love with Danny but her mother was a big problem that did not like her girl be with a servant.
the point is that Danny and Ariana liked Music and this closed them together more than before.
To be honest, when I first saw the trailer for this movie I thought it is just another ordinary love story, just another two people falling in love, just another movie with a happy ending.
Listen to your heart is a movie who will stop you, even just for a second, and tell you to think about life you are living, to think about persons you love.
I think this movie is not just a love story, it is love itself.The moment I loved the most is when Ariana said that dreams actually do come true.
Stand up and make your dreams come true because it's a great day to be alive.
You will see the beauty of music, but mostly the beauty of love.All I can say is, stand up and listen to your heart..