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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.' They might have touched the bed where you slept, or looked at that intimate photo in that drawer. You start to try to put faces to the people that came in and walked around and lifted your personal possessions. Stewart said 'The story started for me about 12 years ago, when I was robbed. I think my last project shows there has been terrible starvation for love themed projects in the movies.' Stewart called the film 'an unusual romantic drama best described as an American Last Tango in Paris. The latter was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer who produced Thief of Hearts. Rather than be arrested for having shot Buddy, he escapes from the police through the window as Mickey watches him running in the dark.ĭouglas 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. Mickey goes to the bedroom and finds out that Scott is there, alive but wounded. The police arrives and it is revealed that the man shot was Buddy. A gunshot is heard and the man stumbles down. Mickey gets out her pistol and aims at the masked man. The married couple come home to find the last standing intruder still in the house. They fight and one gets stabbed with Buddy's knife. Buddy intends to rob them again and Scott tries to stop him. When the Davises go to a restaurant, Scott breaks into their home and reads Mickey's latest diary entry. Her husband arrives and fights with Scott, and when Mickey comes to her husband's aid, Scott leaves. He tells Scott, who, visibly agitated, goes to see Mickey, asking her to leave the city with him, revealing he was the one who stole her diary. They snoop around the building used by the robbers and find out Scott is the thief who stole his belongings.īuddy sees Ray there. Ray decides to follow Scott with his friend and publisher Marty Morrison ( George Wendt). Scott becomes more and more tense when Mickey starts asking questions about him and his past. The forbidden romance soon blossoms into a passionate sexual relationship, as Ray becomes suspicious.ĭuring another robbery, Buddy kills a policeman who spotted them. Scott uses his inside knowledge to seduce her, using the pretext of needing someone to re-design his apartment, and posing as a school supply company CEO. Mickey's husband, children's book author Ray Davis ( John Getz), gets too involved in his work and neglects his wife's needs.

#SARAWEN THIEF OF HEARTS FULL#

The diary is full of her fantasies and dreams, so Scott plans to turn these into reality. Scott reads the diary and discovers that the wife, Mickey, an interior designer, yearns for a more interesting life. One night, one of the items Scott takes is a diary belonging to the wife ( Barbara Williams). Buddy keeps an eye on Mickey and Ray Davis, a rich married couple, while Scott robs their home. It stars Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, John Getz and David Caruso.Ī burglar, Scott Muller ( Steven Bauer), teams up with his buddy Buddy Calamara ( David Caruso), a valet at a high-society restaurant.

It was written and directed by Douglas Day Stewart. Thief of Hearts is a 1984 American erotic drama film produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.

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