2001 · comedy · romance · crime
Heartbreakers
Directed by David Mirkin2h 3m2001
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.
Our read: Heartbreakers (2001) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- tender
- funny
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