There's a believability factor in the middle of this film's premise. If your wife or husband died in their prime in a plane crash, would you go into an investigative mode after you suspected your partner was having an affair?
I suppose that would depend on the relationship preceding the accident. I think I'd be a little more upset about a spouse's death than the infidelity. It would bother me but my first thought would be that a person I had loved was gone.
So there's the starting point and we have a very dour Harrison Ford (who cracks half-a-smile through the whole film) and a very vital Kristin Scott Thomas as the surviving partners.
Another approach--rather than Ford's bullish investigative tactics into what happened--might have been the fact that a drug lord that Ford is seeking to put away was on the same plane. The drug guy was assassinated through a bomb placed on the plane. In my movie, the bomb explodes over the water so there are no bodies.
Meanwhile, Ford's wife just disappears--no one knows where she is.
Through that investigation of the accident, Ford finds some clue that his wife may have been aboard the ill-fated flight. Similarly, Thomas is trying to track down her husband and has gotten hooked up with Ford somehow. Some unusual similarities pop up on the two cases--Ford notices that both were in Florida on the same day twice before that year.
The two feel an attraction--while searching for their mates. At film's end, they uncover the affair but, by this time, are able to help each other handle the crisis. Ford, meanwhile, has been tracking down the drug-crazed bombers.
OK--my movie falls into the action grind but it still beats the "Random Hearts" script.
I suppose that would depend on the relationship preceding the accident. I think I'd be a little more upset about a spouse's death than the infidelity. It would bother me but my first thought would be that a person I had loved was gone.
So there's the starting point and we have a very dour Harrison Ford (who cracks half-a-smile through the whole film) and a very vital Kristin Scott Thomas as the surviving partners.
Another approach--rather than Ford's bullish investigative tactics into what happened--might have been the fact that a drug lord that Ford is seeking to put away was on the same plane. The drug guy was assassinated through a bomb placed on the plane. In my movie, the bomb explodes over the water so there are no bodies.
Meanwhile, Ford's wife just disappears--no one knows where she is.
Through that investigation of the accident, Ford finds some clue that his wife may have been aboard the ill-fated flight. Similarly, Thomas is trying to track down her husband and has gotten hooked up with Ford somehow. Some unusual similarities pop up on the two cases--Ford notices that both were in Florida on the same day twice before that year.
The two feel an attraction--while searching for their mates. At film's end, they uncover the affair but, by this time, are able to help each other handle the crisis. Ford, meanwhile, has been tracking down the drug-crazed bombers.
OK--my movie falls into the action grind but it still beats the "Random Hearts" script.