| Product Summary | | Publisher: MGM | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00027616865687 | | Buy.com Sku: 40158581 | | Item#: VSRY2Q | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25216 | | Category Keywords: Divorce | Rating:  |
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Get ready to lose your heart -- and your bank account -- to a couple of sexy sirens in this "vastly enjoyable comedy" (People Magazine)! With a "first-rate cast" (The New York Times) that includes Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee and Oscar winner Gene Hackman (1972: Best Actor, The French Connection; 1993: Best Supporting Actor, Unforgiven), this hilarious laugh-riot is "smart and funny" (Joel Siegel, Good Morning America)!When it comes to conning millionaires, Page Conners (Hewitt) and her mother Max (Weaver) are real pros. Max lures them to the altar, then Page leads them into temptation...and a hefty divorce settlement! Now they're about to strike gold with the ultimate sting: a wealthy, wheezing tobacco tycoon (Hackman). But before they can seal the deal, Page breaks the cardinal rule of the con and falls in love! Now Max must convince Page to hold on to her heart and the tobacco fortune...or lose the best partner in crime she'll ever have!
"...an engaging and funny popcorn movie...thanks to the considerable talents of its cast." Jane Crowther, BBC Online
"Mirkin hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy." Charles Taylor, Salon.com
"Laugh out loud? You bet." Susan Stark, Detroit News
"...one of those guilty pleasures." John Zebrowski, Seattle Times
"Weaver is exceptional." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"...an engaging and funny popcorn movie...Weaver and Hackman display deliciously astute comic timing..." Jane Crowther, BBC
"Flat-out funny!" Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper and the Movies
Editor's Note
HEARTBREAKERS follows Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a mother and daughter who are expert grifters, through one after another of their perfectly executed scams. Max gets wealthy men to fall in love with her and marry her, then Page seduces them, setting up grounds for Max to divorce them and cash out. HEARTBREAKERS is a fun, fast-moving comedy directed by David Mirkin.
| Features | Interactive Menus | | Audio: English, Spanish, French Dolby Digital 5.1 | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French | | "Bloopers, Gaffes And Other Laughs" Offering An Inside Look At The Behind-The-Scenes Antics During The Film's Production | | 22 Deleted Scenes With Optional Director's Commentary | | Scene Access | | Audio Commentaries With Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt And Director David Mirkin | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs | | "Making Of..." Documentary With Interviews Of Cast & Crew Including Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman, Ray Liotta, Director David Mirkin And Producer Irving Ong |
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 4/7/2009 |
| Running Time: 122 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 1002357 | | UPC: 00027616865687 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt make the gold-digging duo attractive....Weaver puts a good sultry/comic spin on her calculating character..." 03/12/2001 p.34-42New York Times
"...[A] suave comedy....The two actresses give HEARTBREAKERS an air of slick self-confidence..." 03/23/2001 p.E21 Rolling Stone
"...The actors prove themselves expert farceurs..." 04/12/2001 p.146 Entertainment Weekly
"...Charmingly amoral..." 03/30/2001 p.46 Total Film
"...Hackman is particularly gut-busting....He ends up stealing the film..." 09/01/2001 p.91 Los Angeles Times
"...Weaver is exceptional. She has a natural aristocrat's inherent sense of style, gallantry, wit and utter lack of self-pity..." 03/23/2001 p.2 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Raucous....Hard-working and ribald....Weaver and Hewitt attack their roles with zeal..." 03/23/2001 p.31 Uncut
"[T]his is a guilty pleasure....This is cunningly wild at heart." 09/01/2004 p.128 ReelViews 6 of 10
Rarely have I seen a comedy that can justify a two hour running length, and Heartbreakers is no exception. At a reduced length of 90 minutes, it might have been less tiresome (although not necessarily better), but, at 125 minutes, it becomes an endurance contest. One problem is that the screenwriters (Robert Dunn, Paul Guay, and Stephen Mazur) think they have generated a script that's more clever and amusing than it actually is. Another is that the movie constantly repeats itself. Heartbreakers feels long winded and desperately in need of a skilled editor...Heartbreakers intends to marry two venerable genres - the romantic comedy and the caper movie. In principle, it's not a bad idea, but the women's con games aren't interesting and the romantic elements of the film are lukewarm, at best. As an examination of a dysfunctional mother/daughter relationship, the movie lacks insight and interest...There isn't even enough good humor to hold one's interest...One has to wonder what actors like Weaver, Hackman, and Anne Bancroft saw in this script that encouraged them to agree to appear in it. At its best, Heartbreakers is like one of countless forgettable '80s formula comedies that throws a little light melodrama and preposterous complications into an otherwise bland romance. I don't have anything against nostalgia on principle, but resurrecting this kind of movie is a step in the wrong direction. Heartbreakers is unwieldy, dumb, rarely funny (and never truly hilarious) and largely charmless. It's hard to believe that the film's few assets (four of which appear on Weaver and Love Hewitt's chests) will be enough to save it from a quick trip to video store shelves. The con in operation here is to get movie-goers to shell out money for something that doesn't deliver, and takes a long time not doing so. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
"Heartbreakers" is "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" plus Gene Hackman as W.C. Fields, plus Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sigourney Weaver walking into rooms wearing dresses that enter about a quarter of an inch after they do. I guess that's enough to recommend it. It's not a great comedy, but it's a raucous one, hard-working and ribald, and I like its spirit...Weaver and Hewitt play Max and Page, a mother-daughter con team. Their scam: Max (Weaver) marries a rich guy and then surprises him in a compromising position with Page (Hewitt), after which there's a big divorce settlement. This has worked 13 times, according to Max, whose latest victim is Dean (Ray Liotta), a chop-shop owner who falls for what my old buddy Russ Meyer would describe as Hewitt's capacious bodice...Weaver and Hewitt attack their roles with zeal, but the movie doesn't really start humming until Hackman enters. He plays William B. Tensy, a chain-smoking tobacco zillionaire who lives on the water in Palm Beach, Fla., with a draconian housekeeper (Nora Dunn) and lots of ashtrays. He believes everyone, especially children, should take up smoking, and has a cigarette in his mouth at all times except when violently choking with bronchial spasms, which is frequently...My guess is that Hackman decided to take the role when he hit on the approach of playing Tensy as W.C. Fields. There is nothing in the role as written that suggests Fields, but everything does in the role as played, including Hackman's recycling of Fields' wardrobe from the famous short "The Golf Specialist" (1930)...The movie has been directed by David Mirkin, who made the sly and charming "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" (1997). "Heartbreakers" is not as sly and has no ambition to be charming, but in a season of dreary failed comedies it does what a comedy must: It makes us laugh. - Roger Ebert
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