Heartbreakers (2001)

Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play a mother and daughter con team. As a light comedy, this is a half hour too long. And as a light comedy, Ray Liotta is too angry and too threatening. He doesn't have the light touch to have fun with the material.Weaver and Hewitt are not the most obvious cons. I don't know if Hewitt has ever told a lie in real life. She doesn't seem to be the type, and that's the problem. The most important contribution from Hewitt seems to be her curves in tiny tiny dresses and what keeps trying to pop out of them.I have a serious need to compare this to 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'. That one had two all-time comedic masters in Steve Martin and Michael Caine working. This one has two actresses who dabbles in comedies. In that one, it wasn't the cons but the wacky antics that was important. No matter how hard they try, nobody can do physical comedy in the same league.Gene Hackman plays a gruff tobacco magnate. He's not a terribly funny comedian. Jason Lee plays the bar owner who falls for Hewitt. I can't fault anybody for the attempt, but I just don't see much in the mean-spirited personality to like. Nobody is likable here and I want Jason Lee to run away as fast as possible. At over 2 hours, this is an impossibly long unfunny comedy. If it wasn't for Hewitt's impressive curves, there would be nothing to recommend.

Funny how easily guys can be fooled by women, but this movie is all about that. Tragically some women can't be trusted, especially when they're working on man's weakness, by using temptation.The movie takes maximum advantage of all the funny things that can happen when a mother and daughter team of marriage con goes out to dig the gold out of rich men. Unfortunately, the daughter falls for incorruptible decent bar owner. But the plan is still to con the guy into being seduced by the mother (who's pretending to be the cousin of her own daughter) on the night of the wedding of the daughter to the bar owner.The movie is a comedy but hits close to home about how men can be conned by having wool put over their eyes in the name of love, and by some forceful means. That's what makes this movie an extra delight to watch.The movie is actually a love comedy with a twist, and lives up to both the comedy, and romance aspect of the story as well.Jennifer Hewitt and Sigourney Weaver puts on great performance as well as the supporting casts.Great movie that I wish they made more of its kind.

Before I saw her in this film I'd never paid much attention to Jennifer Love Hewitt, since I'd never been much of a fan of horror/dead teenager movies. In 'Heartbreakers', she showed a lot of cleavage, a LOT of leg, and a real talent for both light and physical comedy. I thought that she played very well opposite Sigourney Weaver and still hope that they might team up again some day.There aren't a lot of movies that I'll watch over again, but this is one of them. Ray Liotta is good, if not on screen for most of the film, Gene Hackman is entertaining as a tobacco magnate with a persistent hacking cough, and I always like seeing Anne Bancroft. This is a caper/con game movie driven by the interactions of some very interesting characters.

This movie was not your typical romantic comedy…it's more. This movie was a delight to watch, and it kept my attention throughout the whole movie. Sigourney Weaver is amazing as con artist mother, and may I say…she was stunning too. Typically I don't say that about her…she tends to go after roles that are aggressive, and more manly…but she was funny and entertaining to watch. Jennifer Love Hewitt was your typical spoiled brat, that fell in love with the man she was trying to con out of money. Gene Hackman played an ugly old (loaded) smoker…and may I say, he played the dying old rich man well, lol. The movie was funny, exciting, and romantic. I currently own this movie and will be delighted to watch it again in the near future. I do recommend this movie.For daily movie reviews visit: kimsmoak.com now!