Heartbreak Hospital

Name: Heartbreak Hospital
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Released: September 6, 2002
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 27

2002

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Seventh Art Releasing | Release Date: September 6, 2002

Summary: A comedy set in the fast-paced world of soap operas.

Director: Rudolf Gerber and Ruedi Gerber

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Runtime: 91 min

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Lou Lumenick

A game and often quite funny attempt with an expert cast. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Jean Oppenheimer

Nominal comedy has a few bright spots but never seems to find its rhythm. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Gerber has a sharp cast at hand -- All work furiously, yet the director, with his fake backdrops and stately pacing, never settles on a consistent tone. Surely the novel had more bite. Read full review

Ronnie Schieb

Tries to combine romantic comedy, soap-opera parody and murder mystery, but the disparate elements never gel, and the film, about homicide at a daytime television serial, bounces around with no clue of how to reconcile or intertwine its genre conventions. Read full review

David Sterritt

Everyone tries very hard to make the story sweet and funny, but the soggy screenplay defeats them every time. Read full review

Laura Rothstein

Sluggish, tonally uneven -- In fact, it doesn't even rise to the level of 1991's Soapdish, with the feverishly mugging Elisabeth Shue sending up TV's cesspool of sentimentality. Read full review

Stephen Holden

An excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay. Read full review

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