THE GOOD HEART Casting News

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Source: Variety

Ryan Gosling and Tom Waits are set to star in The Good Heart, a movie by director Dagur Kari.

The movie will star Gosling as a young homeless man who is taken under the wing of a bar owner (Waits). Waits' character has suffered multiple heart attacks and knowing his days are numbered he decides it is best to spend his remaining time training a homeless man to run the bar.

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Comments/Responses

• May 17, 2006, 07:27am •

I enjoed Gosling in Murder by Numbers and The Notebook, and have always thought Tom Waits was a great actor, but the plot seems weak.

lracors • May 17, 2006, 09:55am •

The plot may sound weak, but this could be a good character film. Why is the young man homeless. Reflections of the older man on his life and the choices he has made. Could be interesting.

shockerwhitey6 • May 17, 2006, 01:34pm •

Iracors, I got to completely agree with you on this. If done right, the characters could make this a really good film, especially with the acting talent Gosling and Waits possess.

almostunbiased • May 17, 2006, 02:38pm •

Yep.

• May 17, 2006, 05:09pm •

A movie that is in a similar vein is "Hard Eight" or "Sydney" - made in 1996 by by Paul Thomas Anderson - a professional gambler (Philip Baker Hall) takes a drifter (John C. Reilly) under his wing - later things are complicated by Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson - I was pleasantly surprised and entertained by this film - you can also catch a young Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the casino!

killerville • May 18, 2006, 04:44pm •

Tom Waits is fucking AWSOME!!!! Rain Dogs is one of the greatest albums ever made. He has done a good job in every film Ive seen him in, bordering on great in "Coffee and Cigarettes" He is a true Renaissance man and Ill check this out based on his merit as an artist alone.

killerville • May 18, 2006, 04:46pm •

Here's the "E" that belonged in awesome.

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