American Heart

American Heart (1992)

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

Date of release
1992-12-19
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (74)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Romance
Director
Martin Bell

Casting

Interesting facts

American Heart is a 1992 American independent drama film directed by Martin Bell and starring Jeff Bridges and Edward Furlong. It was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in a number of categories and won in the Best Male Lead category.

Production

Elements of the screenplay for American Heart were based on material originally covered in Martin Bell's documentary film Streetwise, such as the relationship between Dewayne and his father in that movie. The documentary caught the eye of Rosilyn Heller and her associate Jon Peters at the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company, who invited Bell and Mary Ellen Mark to Los Angeles to collaborate on a feature length screenplay with Peter Silverman for W…

By March 1990, Mark Andrus and Yurek Bogayevicz boarded the project, with production scheduled to begin by that summer in New Orleans. However, there were disputes over Bogayevicz' revisions to the screenplay, prompting Bridges to revisit Silverman's original draft.

American Heart was filmed in Seattle from August 1991 to October 1991. To prepare for the role, Jeff Bridges worked closely with Edward Bunker, an ex-con and author of the novel No Beast So Fierce which inspired the 1978 film Straight Time. Bridges also worked out with ex-cons to get his body in similar shape to that of a prisoner.

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