The film embodies some stories about eleven articulate people who work through affairs of the heart in L.A. These people face daily a lot of confronts. It seems that 'Talking about love' is like 'dancing about architecture,' along side. That meaning speech is not the medium to express the love for everyone.
All of these characters are more interesting when things are going badly for them than when the tide has turned, and Carroll's determination to make the final reel an extended bout of audience tummy tickling is disappointingly conventional.
If Playing by Heart is the kind of film that used to be known as a "woman's picture," it certainly provides more emotional nourishment than most other mainstream movies generate these days.
The movie is consistently well-acted and features a gallery of characters so affable that it's difficult to actively dislike any of them, or, for that matter, the film as a whole.
