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Mood:
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Plot:
- Love TriangleLove and RomanceCouplesCouple RelationsFall in LoveWeddingsDishonestyFamily Relations
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Genres:
- ComedyRomance
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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- Date Night
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Humor:
- FarceGrossout HumorIrreverent Humor
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The Heartbreak Kid, 2007
English, Spanish
USA
Profile of The Heartbreak Kid
The mood of The Heartbreak Kid is humorous. The plot centers around a love triangle, couples, and love and romance. It features grossout humor and farce. The Heartbreak Kid is a comedy and romance movie. Stylistically, it involves twists and turns. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. The Heartbreak Kid happens in contemporary times. It is a remake. It is especially suggested for a date night. Note that The Heartbreak Kid includes strong sexual content and profanity.
Summary of The Heartbreak Kid
The Farrelly Brothers add their trademark bounty of bodily functions to this remake of Elaine May's 1972 comedy, THE HEARTBREAK KID. This time around Ben Stiller plays Eddie Cantrow, a 40-year-old bachelor who is tired of having his foulmouthed father (Jerry Stiller) and henpecked friend (Rob Corddry) give him a hard time for not being married. So when he meets the seemingly perfect Lila (Malin Ackerman), he decides to marry her--despite knowing her for only six weeks. On their honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, he realizes his mistake when Lila reveals her true colors, which turn out to be quite ugly. While Lila recovers from a sunburn, Eddie meets fellow vacationer Miranda (Michelle Monaghan) and falls in love. He must break the news to both women before they find out the truth.
After the more standard romantic comedy of FEVER PITCH, Bobby and Peter Farrelly are back to the gross-out comedy that made them famous in films such as THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. This is the first time they've re-teamed with Stiller since that landmark film, and it proves a far better marriage than Eddie and Lila's. Ackerman may be most famous to date for a small role in HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, but she's fearless in this part. The Farrellys have always been fans of bodily humor, and Ackerman's Lila gets to be the butt of the joke most often, largely thanks to her character's deviated septum. There are several moments here that threaten to top the infamous hair-gel scene in THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY as far as groans and giggles go.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 27 September 2007 |
| Runtime: | 116 min |
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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- by: Steven Rea
USA Today
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- by: Claudia Puig
Users Reviews
- 20.March.2009
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- by: spiderpig
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