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Heartbreakers
MGM
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sex-related content including dialogue
Starring
Sigourney Weaver,
Jennifer Love Hewitt,
Ray Liotta,
Jason Lee,
Jeffrey Jones,
Gene Hackman,
Nora Dunn,
and
Anne Bancroft
Max (Weaver) and Page (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. (MGM)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Robert Dunn
Paul Guay
Stephen Mazur
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
David Mirkin
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 2, 2001
Video: October 2, 2001
Theatrical: March 23, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
128 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Heartbreakers is "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" plus Gene Hackman as W.C. Fields. I guess that's enough to recommend it. It's not a great comedy, but it's a raucous one, hard-working and ribald, and I like its spirit.

70
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Mirkin hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.

70
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Although the film is a tad long, Mirkin ("Romy and Michele's High School Reunion") has managed to pull off a classy, gently funny movie in which no one throws up, a rare blessing these days.

70
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It's not a pretty picture, but it is a pretty funny one when Gene Hackman shows up as William B. Tensy, a Palm Beach tobacco tycoon.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
As Hollywood diversions go, this gleaming MGM release still leaves you wishing the filmmakers took as many risks as their grifters do.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Naughty is an outdated word in an era of proud nastiness, but Heartbreakers has a slinky, teasing quality that recalls the dressed-up comedies of the studio era.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Crudely entertaining comedy.
63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Heartbreakers is too long by a half-hour, and there are entire sketches (including a horrid nightclub sequence with Weaver trying to sing in Russian) that could be mercifully sacrificed.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Heartbreakers itself is something of a con game: an expensive imitation of older, better films from older, often better times.
60
Chicago Reader
Reece Pendleton
Despite its nasty facade, this comedy is surprisingly good-natured.

60
Slate
David Edelstein
Con-artist caper comedies are almost always piffle, but there's a fierce, cruel competition at the heart of Heartbreakers that gives it some bite.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's an obvious effort through and through, but that doesn't seem to dampen its ridiculous charm one bit.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
To its credit, Heartbreakers lives up to expectations. Almost.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Never tickles your nasty bone, perhaps because, in an era when the gossip pages are dotted with news of celebrity prenups, the prospect of marriage as a route to instant fortune seems less scandalous than it does like business as usual.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Cries out for the brisk pacing of a Sturges or a Wilder. As is, it's too lumpish, languid, and lukewarm to hit even the guilty pleasure zone.
50
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
A sporadically amusing romp modeled on "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Heartbreakers' implausible level of comedy just grows tedious, as it's neither smartly witty nor full-throttle absurd.

50
Film.com
Sean Means
Hewitt's twin assets may be enough for a lot of moviegoers -- which may be the biggest con Heartbreakers pulls off.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
The nasty, overlong and undisciplined sourball of a sex farce about a mother-daughter con team will nonetheless satisfy bigenerational libidinous fantasies.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Lacks the kind of rhythm and snap to make it work -- and allows this fitfully entertaining romp to dribble on way too long.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
If you're going to serve up a half-baked idea, you might as well have Sigourney Weaver do the cooking.

50
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
When the youngsters are out of the way and old pros Hackman and Weaver work, it's hard to really dislike Heartbreakers. Sometimes, it's even a little bit of harmless fun.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
While in her earlier movies Jennifer Love Hewitt made an impression by spilling out of her tops, in this one she spills out of her clothes at both ends. This could, if one were feeling charitable, be construed as a broadening of her range.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Folks who are desperate to ogle Hewitt and Weaver probably can't be warned off this turkey.
40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Trust me, you'll want to leave these people to get on with their tedious scams alone.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Overstays its welcome by at least a half-hour after never getting very high off the ground in the first place.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Despite its talented and/or attractive cast, Heartbreakers is an ugly movie: The kind that makes you feel slightly soiled afterwards.
33
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A limp and annoying picture.
30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
There's nothing wrong with the structure of Heartbreakers, but David Mirkin's direction is woefully clumsy -- and the movie's tone is nasty.
30
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Heartbreakers gives redemption a bad name, but gives conniving misanthropy a worse one.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's a sorry specimen if ever there was one, and could even stand as an argument for how the movies have deteriorated in recent years.

20
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
What is the great Gene Hackman doing in the dingbat con-artist comedy Heartbreakers.


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