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Lonely Hearts is a 1982 Australian film directed by Paul Cox which won the 1982 AFI Award for Best Film and was nominated in four other categories.
Oct 21, 1982 · Lonely Hearts: Directed by Paul Cox. With Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson, Julia Blake. In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker.
So it seems as good a place as any to start a Wendy Hughes retrospective with Paul Cox's romantic dramedy Lonely Hearts, a minor gem of the Australian New Wave that won Best Film at the AFI Awards in 1982.
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker.
Martha Beck (Salma Hayek) and Ray Fernandez (Jared Leto), known as the Lonely Hearts Killers, prey on spinsters and war widows, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
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An Australian bank clerk (Wendy Hughes) seeks love with a middle-aged piano tuner (Norman Kaye) met through a dating service.
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- Romance, Comedy
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Jul 31, 2007 · Martha Beck (Hayek) and Raymond Fernandez (Leto) were America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers." Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would answer their personal ads in which Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover.
