Untamed Heart
Director: Tony Bill
Genre: Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Medical fiction, Drama
Year: 1993
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Christian Slater, Kyle Secor, Vincent Kartheiser, Willie Garson, Charley Bartlett, Lotis Key, James Cada, Claudia Wilkens, Vanessa Hart, Nancy Marvy, Pat Clemens, Wendy Feder
Untamed Heart is a 1993 film starring Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei. It mixes drama with romance and comedy and tells the story of a young woman, always unlucky in love, finally finding true love in a very shy young man. The film is directed by Tony Bill, and written by Tom Sierchio. The original music score is composed by Cliff Eidelman.
Caroline (Tomei) is a young woman working as a waitress who is always unlucky in love. Adam (Slater) is a shy busboy who saves Caroline when two men try to rape her on her way home one night. She then gets to know him. They become close, but she finds out his past, and the attackers come after Adam for revenge. They end up stabbing him. As their relationship progresses, Caroline discovers that Adam has a heart defect, though he claims he has a baboon heart. On his birthday he goes to a hockey game with Caroline, and catches a hockey puck that is shot into the crowd. On the way home he falls asleep and then passes away at the age of 27.
Tony Bill discovered Tom Sierchio’s screenplay for Untamed Heart during one of his talent hunts. He asked an agent at William Morris to send him screenplays from new writers. Originally, Sierchio’s screenplay
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