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01/15/03
Heartbreak Hospital (2002)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:4
Rotten:12
Average Rating:4.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Based on a mystery novel by Henry Slesar, HEARTBREAK HOSPITAL celebrates, sends-up, and otherwise delves into the obsessive weirdness of daytime television. Struggling actress Neely Kendall... [More]
Starring: Chelsea Altman, Demian Bichir, Patricia Clarkson, John Shea
Director: Rudolph Gerber
Reviews for Heartbreak Hospital
1 - 19 (sorted by rotten rating; UK critics are listed first)
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11/21/08
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10/02/02
This derivative flick cops too much from much-better films like Tootsie, Nurse Betty and Soapdish.
09/13/02
The director, with his fake backdrops and stately pacing, never settles on a consistent tone.
09/12/02
Other than a mildly engaging central romance, Hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst.
09/17/02
Top CriticThe leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting.
12/10/02
Unfortunately, Heartbreak Hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit.
09/15/02
Dodgy mixture of cutesy romance, dark satire and murder mystery.
09/05/02
Sluggish, tonally uneven.
09/03/02
A dreary indulgence.
09/12/02
Top CriticDesperately unfunny when it tries to makes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seats.
09/05/02
You've already seen Heartbreak if you've watched the far superior Nurse Betty or Sunset Boulevard. Even the unwatchable Soapdish is more original.
09/06/02
An excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay.
09/05/02
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05/13/05
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08/22/05
A deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of post, pre, and extant stardom.
09/03/02
It's quite diverting nonsense.
09/09/02
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