Heartbreakers - Warning: Sharp curves!

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Movie
German title Heartbreakers - Warning: Sharp curves!
Original title Heartbreakers
Country of production United States
original language English , Russian
Publishing year 2001
length 119 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director David Mirkin
script Robert Dunn ,
Paul Guay ,
Stephen Mazur
production John Davis ,
Irving Ong
music John Debney
camera Dean Semler
cut William Steinkamp
occupation

Heartbreakers - Warning: Sharp curves! is an American comedy film of David Mirkin from the year 2001 . It stars Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt .

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Max Conners and her daughter Page are a successful marriage swindler duo. The latest victim of her trick is Dean Cumanno, who allegedly cheats on Max with a young woman (Page) the day after her wedding. The result is an immediate divorce with a high settlement for Max. Previously, Page had made it a condition that this should be their last coup together. But an employee of the tax authorities turns up at the bank who has attached all accounts, so the two women have to continue to “work” together. In reality, however, this woman is Barbara, an accomplice and former “teacher” of Max, who thereby ensures that Page sticks to the line. The next victim is said to be tobacco entrepreneur William B. Tensy. His housekeeper wants to inherit Tensy's fortune and get rid of Max. Page hides numerous items belonging to Max and William in their apartment, and the housekeeper is arrested for theft. Page is hired as the new housekeeper.

However, Tensy dies before Max is married. When the two women want to remove his body from a hotel, Dean Cumanno appears, who wants to win Max back. He recognizes Page and realizes that he was set up by the two women. To appease him, Max promises to repay the $ 300,000 settlement. When she tries to withdraw the money from her account, it turns out that Barbara, Max's accomplice, has cleared all of her accounts.

Page has now fallen in love with the bar owner Jack Withrowe and wants to marry him. Since he has received an offer of three million dollars for his bar, he is now to become the new victim of Max, who poses as Pages cousin, in order to pay off her debts to Dean. Max tries to seduce Jack on their wedding night in order to stage the affair necessary for a divorce. When this fails, she drugged him and went to bed with him, where they were caught by Page. Page receives a severance payment from Jack, which she hands over to Max. Dean doesn't want the money anymore and accuses Max of being a bad mother. Max realizes that she has hurt her daughter, although she actually wanted to protect Page from the disappointments of love. She then tells her daughter the truth about Jack's alleged affair. Page and Jack make up, as well as Max and Dean.

Dean made Max a requirement to become "respectable" now. However, she asks him a favor beforehand: Dean approaches the fraudulent accomplice Barbara in order to steal the money she stole from Max. Max watches his successful advances with satisfaction through binoculars.

Reviews

James Berardinelli criticized the comedy on movie-reviews.colossus.net for being too long and compared it to some trivial comedies of the 1980s that mixed elements of a melodrama with a few complications. He described the film as "charmless", "stupid", "cumbersome" and "rarely funny". Berardinelli praised the representations of Ray Liotta, Sigourney Weaver and Jason Lee with reservations.

Carsten Baumgardt described the plot on www.filmstarts.de as "conventional", but the film as "entertaining".

In Gene Hackman's biography in Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films (Volume 3, Berlin 2001), Kay less particularly emphasized his performance as an actor: "Hackman gave another (now comical) brilliant achievement as a smoking-coughing billionaire and potential victim of a mother-daughter who was cheating on marriage. Team in the comedy "Heartbreakers". "

Awards

Sigourney Weaver was nominated for the Golden Satellite Award in 2002.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

backgrounds

Alicia Silverstone was slated for the role of Page Conners first . In the German dubbed version, Ray Liotta is voiced by Christian Tramitz . The cost of production was about $ 40 million, and US box office income was also $ 40 million.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Heartbreakers - Warning: Sharp curves! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 87 589-a V).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Heartbreakers - Warning: Sharp curves! Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  4. ^ Criticism on filmstarts.de

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