Heartbreakers (2001)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 118
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 56
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.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 21
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.
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After the little white lies of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), director David Mirkin focuses on scheming of a different sort in Heartbreakers. Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play Max and Page Conners, a mother and daughter who share everything with each other: relationship advice, hair and makeup hints, and the money they win in costly divorce settlements with rich men. When the film opens, the Conners are putting the finishing touches on conning Dean (Ray Liotta), an
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Sigourney Weaver
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Kevin Nealon
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All Critics (138) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (57) | DVD (19)
All I can say is that I enjoyed it -- and that I'm ashamed to admit it.
Top CriticGreat escapist fun.
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.
Heartbreakers is one of these guilty pleasures.
Unless you're a Hackman aficionado, there's no reason to bother with Heartbreakers.
Hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.
Not terrible, it just doesn't work very well.
A funny and utterly charming romantic comedy
The only contribution--and it's a dubious one--that Mirkin makes in his trifle of a comedy is to feminize the perennially male profession of con artists with a mother-daughter team, played by the regal Sigourney Weaver and sexy Jennifer Love Hewitt.
We can be sure that the makers of this movie know what their product and her assets are and intend to exploit them to the utmost
Perhaps the biggest surprise is Liotta, who turns in a hilarious turn as Dean, in a blatant send-up of his mobster screen persona.
Audience Reviews for Heartbreakers
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- Dean Cumanno / Vinny Staggliano: Do you have any idea how much therapy you people need?
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- Dean Cumanno / Vinny Staggliano: No more conning! No more! If you're gonna be my wife, you're gonna live a respectable life, chopping cars!
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