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Heartbreakers (2001)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:60
Rotten:55
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Though the actors pour a lot of energy into their roles, Heartbreakers is too drawn out, and the romantic subplot doesn't blend well. Also, the con women aren't particularly sympathetic.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men who fall prey to her... Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men who fall prey to her beauty and charm, and marries them. The equally gorgeous Page then seduces them. Max catches her wayward husbands in the act. Then it's off to divorce court with the hapless men losing much more than their shirts and on to the next scam, with Max and Page posing in a variety of cons to keep one (or two) steps ahead of the law. -- © 2001 MGM [More]
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, Gene Hackman, Jeffrey Jones, Anne Bancroft
Director: David Mirkin
Director: David Mirkin
Screenwriter: Robert Dunn, Paul Guay, Stephen Mazur
Producer: Irving Ong, John Davis
Studio: MGM/UA
Reviews for Heartbreakers
"(Liotta) is so absurdly over-the-top and consistently hilarious ... that he's easily the best thing about the movie."
Why beat around the bush? This is one of the funniest comedies to hit the big screen in a long time.
On the laugh-a-minute meter, the script for Heartbreakers rates relatively high.
Should a sequel come to pass, that film would probably be a lot more interesting and entertaining, given the more promising note on which this film ends.
Worth seeing if only to give women hope that they can look like Sigourney at 51.
It isn't hard to predict how this film is going to come out once it gets going, but it is a pleasant enough journey.
the movie as a whole generates a comic rhythm that is easy to sink into
All I can say is that I enjoyed it -- and that I'm ashamed to admit it.
Heartbreakers is a comedy that fails to generate any appreciable laughter or present an engaging story until long after it has been rightfully labeled a dud.
Director David Mirkin, whose Romy and Michele's High School Reunion was similarly afflicted, never gets the timing right and allows the story to drag with little internal logic.
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