One from the Heart is a 1982
musical film directed by
Francis Ford Coppola. It starred
Frederic Forrest,
Teri Garr,
Raul Julia,
Nastassja Kinski, and
Lainie Kazan The characters themselves do not actually sing but the powerful score dominates the movie. It is set entirely in
Las Vegas, on the
Las Vegas Strip and the desert surrounding the city. Though the film realistically evokes the feeling of being on the busy Las Vegas Strip, there were no
location shots used in the film. Instead, it was shot on studio sound stages, with the single exception of one space on the back lot for a "Las Vegas junkyard" set, described by a character in the film as being "the garden of the
Taj Mahal".