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Summary: How manipulation can be so fun...
Review: Mother and daughter with a common ground: scamming money from unsuspecting husbands by staging adultery. If you can stand the plot line, and disregard inconsistencies, this could be an enjoyable movie. The performances are unique: Sigourney Weaver brings sophistication to her humorous scoundrel of a character. Jennifer Love Hewitt represents beauty that is hidden under layers of materialism and awkwardness. Gene Hack-man brings a whole new meaning to his name. Ray Liotta jumps smoothly from one personality to another, as he is obsessed with the past. Jason Lee captures everyone's heart reminding all of how attractive loyalty is. Summary: A great no-brainer movie if you don't get hung up on inconsistencies...Don't ever ask yourself 'How could that be?' To enjoy it, keep an eye out for the hints of honesty throughout the movie. It is, after all, mostly about deception.
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Summary: Showcase for Gene Hackman's underused comic genius.
Review: The brilliant opening sequence of 'Heartbreakers' explains what is right and wrong about the film. Ray Liotta, who has just married a Catholic Sigourney Weaver who refused sex before marriage, is desperate for consummation, and eager to dispense with the polite wedding formalities of the bridegroom. Weaver insists, however, on dancing with everyone in the room, and drinking her way into a chastity-belt stuopor. When Liotta finally drags her away, director Mirkin expertly conveys the violence of his burning hormones and the inevitable frustration of his desire, by propulsive hand-held camera behind the raging stud, and a camera pulling away from him down an endless corridor. Inevitably, by the time he gets his lady on the bed, she passes out. Like 'Touch Of Evil', 'Heartbreakers' can be seen as the quest of the male hero to consummate the deferred kiss. Like Charlton Heston in that movie, or many Bunuel leads, Liotta's complacent self-image is destroyed and he becomes violently consumed by this frustrated desire. 'Heartbreakers' might seem to be about powerful women - a mother and daughter team of con-artists who trick wealthy men into marriages, adultery and expensive divorces - but is really about the men who go crazy for these wild cards, who try to tame them. The actreses (especially Weaver) try hard, but they achieve no real chemistry; their power is monotonous, their capitulation sentimental and sinister. It is the men - chain-smoking, phlegm-spluttering, male-nude-statue-purchasing tobacco billinaire Gene Hackman; and Liotta in a wonderful send-up of his gangster image - that the film achieves its most wicked comic moments. The women's work couldn't succeed if it wasn't for the rampant idiocies of the male libido, which lets men down as much as it exploits women (aw the poor loves). The dreary mother and daughter love/hate stuff and the lure-of-true-love angst might ring true, but is considerably less fun. That's why the opening scene is emblematic. Mirkin brings to it the larger-than-life cartoon truth that he kept from his time at 'The Simpsons' and he injected into his debut 'Romy and Michelle's High-School Reunion', with exagerrated music, composition and camera-movement. It focuses on the older characters - the battle-of-the-sexes sub-Hawksian tussle has always provided richer comic material than the generational conflict. But in its sustained tease, in its leading up to jokes it never delivers, in its deferal of what is truly funny, the scene is all too symbolic. After all, the driving force of the scene, Ray Liotta, disappears for over an hour! The fault lies with the overlong script, which depends on the comic charm of the performers, rather than its own intrinisic merits, to succeed.
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Summary: Delightful comedy about scoundrels
Review: While we may be hesitant to admit it, America has a fondness for scoundrels. Maybe it's our nation's way of fighting its Puritan origins. Perhaps it's because we love freedom in all its many forms. The movies have always given us with characters who delight in bending the rules. From Mae West and W. C. Fields to The Godfather and Indiana Jones, we have laughed or cried, as the case may be, at their antics. The mother-daughter con team in the comedy Heartbreakers is Hollywood's latest devilish duo. This movie isn't destined to be a classic. It's too long, and it's not as clever as it should have been. Still, it provides an adequate number of laughs. Despite its limitations, it stands head and shoulder about this year's other comedies, most of which have had about as much class as a toilet bowl. The opening shots are of the gorgeous wedding of Max and Dean [Sigourney Weaver and Ray Liotta]. Dean is completely smitten by Max and is clueless as to the problems that are about to develop. She is using an alias. He doesn't even know her real name is Max. He'd certainly be surprised to know this is her thirteenth trip down the aisle. No wonder she's so good at it. Poor Dean! The best is yet to come. His sexy new secretary, who is about to seduce him, is not only Max's partner, she's also her daughter, Page [Jennifer Love Hewitt]. Soon the ladies will be off to Palm Beach, taking with them all of Dean's heart and half of his fortune. Who will the ladies try to catch in Florida's playground of the rich? And what of Dean? Have they heard the last of him? Weaver and Liotta make a welcome return to comedy, a medium they both excel at. Liotta is one of the few actors who can be funny and menacing at the same time. Also aboard is Gene Hackman, who plays Max's next victim, an obnoxious, chain-smoking tobacco heir named William Tensy. He appears to be having as much fun playing the part as we do watching him play it. Anne Bancroft has a small but delightful part as Barbara, the woman who taught Max everything. Jason Lee is fine as Jack, the guy Page accidentally falls in love with. Hewitt is the weak link in the cast. She plays Page as a woman totally devoid of charm, which makes Jack's falling for her a bit of a stretch. This is a really lovely movie to look at. The color in the photography is vibrant and crisp. The location shots and the sets are dazzling. And those dresses! I rarely even notice dresses, but the ones designed for Weaver and Hewitt are knockouts. They remind us that a movie can say much about a character just by the way he or she is dressed.
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Summary: WOW
Review: its so funny i like it alot esecialy Sigourney Weaver i like her charester in this movie shes funny alot and jennifer love too , well its perfect
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Summary: Silly fun
Review: I think Sigourney Weaver is one of our coolest actresses, and probably one of the most underrated. Not that this is an Oscar role here---far from it---but she is always interesting to watch. The premise of the movie is good but it never seems to reach its potential. It does, however, have its funny moments. Gene Hackman is hilarious as the tobacco tycoon who pratically breathes and exhales cigarette smoke and Ray Liotta does a fair job as the last man tricked by this mother/daughter con team. It was nice to see Anne Bancroft in a cameo role and would have been better if we could have seen more of her. As it was, there wasn't really anything very funny written for her. Jennifer Love Hewitt fair well as the daughter but she is outshined by Sigourney Weaver. This is not a great movie but its good enough to pass a couple of hours.
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Summary: Examine that head carefully
Review: It's a rule of thumb that seldom steers you wrong: if a video cover shows the actors, who were obviously photographed at different times, crudely montaged together, the movie is going to stink. And, if that wasn't enough of a clue, carefully examine Ms. Weaver's glamorous head. Doesn't it seem just a bit too large for the sleek body it sits atop? I normally wouldn't lead off my review with such trivia but, sad to say, it's the most interesting thing about this sourball of a comedy. I suppose it's the only game in town if you want to ogle Jennifer Dugs Hewitt's cleavage so if that's your kink, godspeed. (The actresses' commentary on the DVD offers a nice illustration of their personal differences. While Ms. Weaver ponders the Gene Hackman character's resemblance to Malvolio in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Ms. Hewitt rues that her butt looks so large in a certain pair of white slacks.)
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Summary: Much better than I thought it would be . . .
Review: Here's yet another movie that the critics hated--but I actually thought it was pretty good. Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt are great--Hewitt in particular is much sharper and funnier than I thought she'd be. Gene Hackman is hilarious and really gets into his role, and Jason Lee . . . well, I'd watch Jason Lee watch grass grow! He's always good. This is a laugh-out-loud movie that's actually got a good heart, despite all appearances to the contrary. You won't be wasting your time by watching it. Go ahead, give it a try.
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Summary: LOVE IT! The plot is so well thought out!
Review: This movie has a bit of everything! It has comedy, deception, love, lust, grief, and every other emotion immaginable! I really like criminal or con movies, because their plots and thefts are usually so elaborate and thought out. This definately did NOT leave me disappointed! I saw this movie in the theater three times and bought it as soon as it came out on DVD. I recommend it for everyone!
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Summary: a must see comedy
Review: You rarely see any of the stars in comedies like this one. This is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. And the movie is funny from beginning to end. The movie is about a mother daughter duo that con men. Sigourney Weaver plays the mother that seduces the men and marries them while Jennifer Love Hewitt comes along to end the marriage by seducing the husband while the Sigourney comes in during the middle of it and divorces him and they both get the money. So after getting the money they go to Florida to scam other men but they both get in over their heads with everything not going as planned in a funny way. They both look really good in this movie by wearing provacative things. The movie also has Gene Hackman and Ray Liotta playing funny roles as the guys. The features are a great thing to have on the dvd. It has "gag-reel" with outtakes off everybody that will have you laughing more. Then their are the deleted scenes which are also very funny. It has commentaries by the 2 stars and it also has a documentary on the movie. It does have the regular special features like trailers and director commentary. Its almost boggles the mind on how they got so many special features on one disc. You will like this dvd. so you must see this 100% funny movie.
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Summary: Stupid AND Funny, for Adults
Review: While a lot of the film is entirely predictable, this vehicle does not take itself seriously, and there are so really funny moments. Rating is wrong, there is simulated oral sex. Not every kid who can pass for 13 is ready for this. The plot is elementary. Mom and daughter con team. Mom gets a proposal, and the daughter seduces the new hubby on his wedding day. Quick divorce settlement, the sheets don't even get messy, and the team is out of town. But what if one of the women actually starts to like a guy? Well, you can fill in the blanks, but it is pretty funny, and men can be pretty stupid and predictable when sex is apparently immediately available. Ray Liotta is genuinely funny, and Gene Hackman is funny and revolting at the same time. Put the kids togther and have some harmless laughs. DonB
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