Travolta and Gandolfini Gang Up

Travolta shown here in Faceoff 2.

An absorbing true story about serial killers on the lam, Lonely Hearts is based on the murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez during the late 1940s and Detective Elmer C. Robinson's participation in their capture, incarceration and subsequent executions.

The murders are bloody and demented as lovers Ray and Martha travel together, Ray seducing lonely, vulnerable women, milking them of their money, then killing them. All the while Martha falls deeper into obsession for Ray, convinced of their undying bond because he kills for her, and ultimately drawn to participate in the grotesque crimes. They're a dangerous duo who leave a bloody trail behind.

John Travolta (Be Cool, Ladder 49) plays Elmer Robinson, the dedicated and brooding detective; James Gandolfini (All the Kings Men, The Sopranos) is his partner who steers him through emotionally difficult times. On a strange sidenote James Gandolfini played a gay man in the Mexican and John Travolta has never played a Mexican. Makes you wonder.