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Heartbreakers (2001)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:12
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: 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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sex-related content including dialogue
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Mar 23, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $39,886,900
Synopsis: Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer 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... Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer 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. Max catches her wayward husbands in the act. Then it's off to divorce court with the hapless men losing much more than their shirts and on to the next scam, with Max and Page posing in a variety of cons to keep one (or two) steps ahead of the law. -- © 2001 MGM [More]
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, Gene Hackman, Jeffrey Jones, Anne Bancroft
Director: David Mirkin
Director: David Mirkin
Screenwriter: Robert Dunn, Paul Guay, Stephen Mazur
Producer: Irving Ong, John Davis
Studio: MGM/UA
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Reviews for Heartbreakers
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.
Unless you're a Hackman aficionado, there's no reason to bother with Heartbreakers.
There are not enough Hefty bags in all The Home Depots to contain the trash generated by this vulgar burlesque.
Naughty is an outdated word in an era of proud nastiness, but Heartbreakers has a slinky, teasing quality that recalls the dressed-up comedies of the studio era.
Despite its talented and/or attractive cast, Heartbreakers is an ugly movie: The kind that makes you feel slightly soiled afterwards, not to mention conned out the price of admission as efficiently as the victims of the movie's two heroines.
The film unfolds in an impersonal, by-the-book fashion that threatens to become downright laborious.
At just over two hours, Heartbreakers stretches its premise and easygoing silliness to the maximum.
It ignores one of the game's unbreakable rules: Do the job and get out quick. Instead, Heartbreakers spends more than 2 hours meandering its way through the story.
A concoction by director David Mirkin that never fails to sink to the lowest common denominator -- yet often hits a funny bone.
It's not a great comedy, but it's a raucous one, hard-working and ribald, and I like its spirit.
Trust me, you'll want to leave these people to get on with their tedious scams alone.
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