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- On its own merits, The Heartbreak Kid is an entertaining-enough comedy, with a decent dose of laughs. Silly/extreme sight gags are particularly plentiful. But the film can't be judged purely on its own merits, because it's a remake.
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Oct 4, 2007 · Eddie Cantrow (Ben Stiller) gets more than he bargained for when his new wife Lila (Malin Akerman) turns out to be completely obnoxious in The Heartbreak Kid.
Oct 5, 2007 · Despite some amiable performances, The Heartbreak Kid is neither as daring nor as funny as the Farrelly Brothers' earlier films. Read Critics Reviews
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- Peter Farrelly, Robert Farrelly
- R
- Ben Stiller
An uproariously funny confluence of top-shelf talent, The Heartbreak Kid finds bittersweet humor in attitudes toward love and marriage in early '70s America. Read Critics Reviews
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- Elaine May
- PG
- Charles Grodin
Elaine May is willing to improvise, to indulge (and exploit) quirks in acting style, and to examine social hypocrisy with a kind of compulsive ferocity. It's a comedy, but there's more in it than that; it's a movie about the ways we pursue, possess, and consume each other as sad commodities. Advertisement.
The Heartbreak Kid is the painfully funny tale of a perennial loser the fish who outgrows his small pond only to be drowned in the big sea. Full Review | Feb 23, 2022
Oct 5, 2007 · The Heartbreak Kid: Directed by Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly. With Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller. A newly wed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon.
Oct 5, 2007 · If you haven’t seen “The Heartbreak Kid,” Elaine May’s 1972 adaptation of a short story by Bruce Jay Friedman (with a screenplay by Neil Simon), you’re missing a minor, if somewhat dated ...
