Lonely Hearts
True love can be murder.
2006 | 108m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Todd Robinson |
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| Writer: | Todd Robinson |
| Staring: |
| In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 30, 2006 |
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| Director: | Todd Robinson |
| Writer: | Todd Robinson |
| Genres: | Drama, Romance, Crime, Thriller |
| Keywords | sibling relationship, nurse, detective, eroticism, seduction, longing, undercover agent, greed, lonely hearts ad, observer, femme fatale, murder, loneliness |
| Production Companies | Millennium Media, Emmett/Furla Films, Equity Pictures Medienfonds III, Nu Image Entertainment |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $2,520,000
Budget: $18,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jul 30, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| John Travolta | Elmer Robinson |
| James Gandolfini | Det. Charles Hilderbrandt |
| Jared Leto | Ray Fernandez |
| Salma Hayek Pinault | Martha Beck |
| Scott Caan | Det. Reilly |
| Laura Dern | Rene Fodie |
| Michael Gaston | D.A. Hunt |
| Dan Byrd | Eddie Robinson |
| Alice Krige | Janet Long |
| Dagmara Dominczyk | Delphine Downing |
| Bailee Madison | Rainelle Downing |
| Bruce MacVittie | Det. Eastman |
| John Doman | Chief MacSwain |
| Ellen Travolta | Ida |
| Jason Gray-Stanford | Officer Chetnick |
| Sam Travolta | Foreman |
| Jonathan Rau | Uniformed Cop |
| Nick Loren | Detective January |
| Andrew E. Wheeler | Det. Tooley |
| Jack Swanson | Fruit Stand Attendant |
| Allison McKay | Mrs. Paterson |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| David Eckert | Art Direction |
| Trista Jordan | Key Hair Stylist, Key Makeup Artist |
| Randa Squillacote | Hair Department Head |
| Ashley Waldron | Music Supervisor |
| Steven Ritzi | Stunt Coordinator |
| Jon Udell | Boom Operator |
| Stephanie Girard | Set Designer |
| Sarah Parker | Post Production Coordinator |
| Peter Levy | Director of Photography |
| Jon Gary Steele | Production Design |
| Vera Mills | Art Direction |
| Michelle Bühler | Makeup Artist, Key Makeup Artist |
| Jonathan Miller | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Jon Kuyper | Line Producer |
| Gene Page | Still Photographer |
| Kristen Donaldson | Art Department Coordinator |
| Yolanda Toussieng | Hairstylist |
| Kathryn Himoff | Editor |
| Vincent DeFelice | Art Direction |
| Traci Kirshbaum | Set Decoration |
| Diane Maurno | Makeup Department Head |
| Phyllis Huffman | Casting |
| Ken King | Sound Mixer |
| Nicholas Scott | Set Designer |
| Jonathan Wales | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Todd Robinson | Director, Screenplay |
| Donald Dowd | Makeup & Hair Assistant |
| Mychael Danna | Original Music Composer, Music |
| Jacqueline West | Costume Design |
| Krishna Rao | "A" Camera Operator |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Boaz Davidson | Producer |
| Holly Wiersma | Producer |
| Josef Lautenschlager | Executive Producer |
| John Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Manfred D. Heid | Executive Producer |
| Trevor Short | Executive Producer |
| Gerd Koechlin | Executive Producer |
| Andreas Thiesmeyer | Executive Producer |
| Anson Downes | Associate Producer |
| Randall Emmett | Executive Producer |
| Avi Lerner | Executive Producer |
| Danny Dimbort | Executive Producer |
| George Furla | Executive Producer |
| Linda Favila | Associate Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 18 | 31 | 12 |
| 2024 | 5 | 21 | 43 | 10 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 9 | 55 | 148 |
Well a lot of people have pointed out that it is full of cop cliche's... and I won't disagree, but it's a neo noir, and rather than cliche I would call them "tropes" as in, it does it's best to hit as many tropes as it can... ... and as someone that loves the genre in print, in comic, and on the ... silver screen, I appreciate that. My only complaint is Travolta who seems to pick and choose what roles he acts in and what roles he does the Gotti in. In this case, he's doing the Gotti... ... but Gandolfini does a great job, Leto has one of the roles where he's acting and not being, well, Leto, and Hayek is amazing so it all comes together to make a decent film. In fact, Gandolfini does such a great job with the narration work that it breaks the heart he didn't become the next Leonard Nemoi/Morgan Freeman goto narrator for documentaries. It's a trope filled fest, but tropes aren't bad when you expect a film to hit them.