Heartbreakers (2001 film)
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| Directed by | David Mirkin |
| Produced by |
John Davis Irving Ong |
| Written by |
Robert Dunn Paul Guay Stephen Mazur |
| Starring |
Sigourney Weaver Jennifer Love Hewitt Ray Liotta Jason Lee Gene Hackman Anne Bancroft Jeffrey Jones Sarah Silverman Zach Galifianakis Nora Dunn |
| Music by |
John Debney Danny Elfman (theme) |
| Cinematography | Dean Semler |
| Edited by | William Steinkamp |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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122 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Russian |
| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $57,756,408 |
Heartbreakers is a 2001 caper-romantic comedy film directed by David Mirkin. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, and Gene Hackman. Weaver was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for her performance in the film. The plot revolves around an elaborate con set up by a mother-daughter team to swindle wealthy men out of their money, and what happens during their "last" con together.
This film is written by Robert Dunn, Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur. It was the third collaboration by Guay and Mazur, whose previous comedies were The Little Rascals and Liar Liar.
Max and Page Conners (Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a mother-daughter con artist team. When the film opens, the Conners are finishing a con on Dean Cumanno (Ray Liotta), an auto-body shop owner and small-time crook. The con, which the Conners have played many times before on other men, involves Max marrying Dean, passing out on their wedding night to avoid consummating the marriage, and then Page (posing as Dean's secretary) luring Dean into a compromising position to justify Max's immediate divorce and hefty settlement. The con is a success.
Page declares that she wants to go solo. Max initially relents, but when they go to the bank to split their earnings, they're confronted by an IRS agent (Anne Bancroft) who declares that they owe the government a considerable sum on top of the rest of their savings, which have already been seized. Page reluctantly agrees to work one last con with Max in Palm Beach, to get enough money to pay off the IRS and set Page up to work on her own. For their target, they choose widower William B. Tensy (Gene Hackman), a tobacco baron who is addicted to his own product.
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