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Heartbreakers (2001)

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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: 32
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 20

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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Movie Info

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

PG-13, 2 hr. 3 min.

Comedy

Directed By: David Mirkin

Written By: Robert Dunn, Paul Guay, Stephen Mazur

In Theaters: Mar 23, 2001 Wide

On DVD: Oct 2, 2001

Box Office:$39.9M

MGM

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Cast

Sigourney Weaver
Max Conners/Angela Nard...
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Page Conners/Wendy/Jane...
Ray Liotta
Dean Cumanno / Vinny St...
Jason Lee
Jack Withrowe
Gene Hackman
William B. Tensy
Jeffrey Jones
Mr. Appel
Anne Bancroft
Gloria Vogal/Barbara
Nora Dunn
Miss Madress
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Leo
Ricky Jay
Dawson's Auctioneer
Sarah Silverman
Linda
Zach Galifianakis
Bill
Michael Hitchcock
Davis
Elya Baskin
Vladimir
Kevin Nealon
Man at the Bar

Critic Reviews for Heartbreakers

All Critics (138) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (57) | DVD (18)

All I can say is that I enjoyed it -- and that I'm ashamed to admit it.

March 26, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

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Great escapist fun.

March 23, 2001 Full Review Source: CNN.com

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(CNN.com) Paul Clinton

CNN.com

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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.

March 23, 2001 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Susan Wloszczyna

USA Today

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Unless you're a Hackman aficionado, there's no reason to bother with Heartbreakers.

March 23, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Edward Guthmann

San Francisco Chronicle

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Hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.

March 23, 2001 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Charles Taylor

Salon.com

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There are not enough Hefty bags in all The Home Depots to contain the trash generated by this vulgar burlesque.

March 23, 2001 Full Review Source: Newsday

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Jan Stuart

Newsday

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Not terrible, it just doesn't work very well.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

A funny and utterly charming romantic comedy

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile

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Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

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.

December 7, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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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

November 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Bangitout.com

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Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

Perhaps the biggest surprise is Liotta, who turns in a hilarious turn as Dean, in a blatant send-up of his mobster screen persona.

February 13, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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Tom Grealis

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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A mom and daughter team,(Signourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt), work together to con men into loving them, cheating on them and then paying them upon divorce.This has worked 13 times.... It works like this, Max seduces a lovestruck desperado, marries him and, with the aid of Page as "the other woman," scams him

January 22, 2011

♥Robyn M♥

Super Reviewer

It's a bit like Dirty rotten scoundrels but this time it's the women who are the con artists. It's funny in places and has a tad more of an adult theme to it than DRS. A bit long at around 2 hours but at least that means the sexy Jennifer Love Hewitt is on the screen a bit longer. Overall quite light hearted and predictable but not too bad.

December 31, 2006

Dean !

Super Reviewer

Heartbreakers Quotes

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1. Dean Cumanno / Vinny Staggliano: Do you have any idea how much therapy you people need?
– Submitted by Lea L (8 months ago)
1. 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!
– Submitted by Lea L (8 months ago)