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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900932004
Format: PAL
Label: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Manufacturer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 230695
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Theatrical Release Date: March 23, 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Heartbreakers wants to be a distaff variation of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, compensating for lack of intelligence with ample cleavage provided by Sigourney Weaver and (especially) Jennifer Love Hewitt. This alone should draw plenty of drooling guys who will enjoy the scenery and affirm the movie's depiction of men as lecherous idiots. And what scenery it is! Gussied up in trampy glamour, Weaver and Hewitt play mom-and-daughter grifters with a devious routine: Max (Weaver) lures wealthy cads into marriage, and then daughter Page (Hewitt) seduces them, so Mom can discover the infidelity and fleece the chump in divorce court. They've just scammed the boss of a hot-car ring (Ray Liotta) and now it's on to Palm Beach, Florida, where they'll dupe a wheezing tobacco baron (Gene Hackman) and retire to the good life. Or so they think...
Armed with the same airheaded humor he brought to Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, director David Mirkin relies on the clichéd notion that sex turns all men into morons--a conceit that would have worked if the dialogue and sitcom antics were more convincing. As Page's would-be paramour, Jason Lee is rendered intellectually inert, and it's hit-or-miss from that point forward. When the humor hits--as it does with Nora Dunn's rendition of a horrible housemaid--Heartbreakers hints at its full potential. Additional plot twists--not to mention Hewitt's microskirts and Wonderbras--may hold your attention, but you may find yourself harkening back to Steve Martin, Michael Caine, and those happier high jinks on the French Riviera. Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin has a cameo role as the wedding priest. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - All that matters here is Jennifer Love Hewitt
This is a must-have for any hetero male who can't wait for it to come around again on cable TV. Forget all the bad reviews; all that matters is that Jennifer Love Hewitt is painfully hot in this movie. Actually it's a half-decent film that rises above the level of sex comedies aimed at the 18-35 knuckle-dragging audience. But that doesnt' matter. Yeah, it's light fare but you won't care. The cast is full of A-listers (Gene Hackman, Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, Anne Bancroft, Nora Dunn, ... Read More
Rating:  - How can anyone like a movie like this?
I was going through some of the movies I liked the most ever, and some of the movies I most hated. This is one that I most hated. I wonder how anyone could give it 4 or 5 stars. First off, they are con artist, scammers, and heels in life. Why should the audience care if they find love and live happily ever after or not? I wanted them to get hit by a train, not find happiness. It was also gross and disturbing to see Weaver try to act seductive and sexy. She lost that 20 years ago or more. Gene Hackman, ... Read More
Rating:  - Funny, a riot, on a difficult theme
HEARTBREAKERS offers a story rarely touched upon, is a good comedy, a
riot, in fact, such that many may not be able to not laugh out loud,
mainly from the curious aspects in the dialog, other times from the
quality of the acting, especially from Ray Liotta, and Gene Hackman,
both marks of the confidence ladies played by Sigourney Weaver, and
Jennifer Love Hewitt.
The marketing of the movie is succesful in the sense that the movie
delivers exactly was promised, ... Read More
Rating: - Doesn't quite get off the ground
This film has its moments, mainly the occasional funny one-liner, but unfortunately it never quite seems to get off the ground. I like all the main actors/actresses, but there's very little on-screen chemistry between them, although they do things to Gene Hackman that you normally don't get to do to him on-screen. The concept of two beautiful, scamming sisters is funny enough, but as I said, the movie just doesn't quite make it work. And Sigourney Weaver's fake Russian accent during part of the movie is as phoney ... Read More
Rating: - FUNNY FOR HALF ITS LENGTH, THEN A FOG OF INDECISION
For a chick-flick, the film does well to aim no higher than some shallow raunchy old fun. There is enough air in the beginning romp to draw you in. It is only when you find yourself predicting exact lines and jokes that you begin to wonder if there is much meat left past the first hour.
As the mother in a mother-daughter con-woman pair, Sigourney Weaver is by turns comical and lascivious. Subjective opinion: I found her significantly more fetching than the younger Jennifer Love Hewitt, who is pesky as ... Read More
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