Thief of Hearts

Thief of Hearts (1984)

In the night, secrets are stolen.

A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.

Date of release
1984-10-19
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (47)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director
Douglas Day Stewart

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Thief of Hearts is a 1984 American erotic drama-thriller produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It was written and directed by Douglas Day Stewart. It stars Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, John Getz and David Caruso.

Production

Douglas Day Stewart wrote and directed the film off the back of his successful scripts for The Blue Lagoon and especially An Officer and a Gentleman. The latter was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer who produced Thief of Hearts. Stewart called the film "an unusual romantic drama best described as an American Last Tango in Paris... I never try to write to the market. I just write love-themed material.

Stewart said "The story started for me about 12 years ago, when I was robbed. You start to try to put faces to the people that came in and walked around and lifted your personal possessions. They might have touched the bed where you slept, or looked at that intimate photo in that drawer. That was the beginning of the story, but I didn't quite have a handle on it for many years until I added the element of the journals."

Stewart says he "read all those books about women's sexual fantasies. I talked to women about their fantasies. I read journal entries. It proved to me that women lived so much inside their fantasies that men didn't realize it." Stewart estimated he did 23 drafts. Filming started February 13, 1984 in San Francisco. It was made by the team of Don Simpson and Bruckheimer who were coming off a big success with Flashdance.

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