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Heart-breakers - Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jason Lee, David Mirkin

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Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their gift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men who fall prey to her beauty and charm and marries them. The equally gorgeous Page then seduces them. Max "catches" her wayward husbands in the act. Then it's off to divorce court - with the hapless men losing much more than their shirts - and on to the next scam, with Max and Page posing in a variety of cons to keep one (or two) steps ahead of the law.

Persons of interest

Sigourney Weaver .... Max Conners/Angela
Jennifer Love Hewitt .... Page Conners/Jane Helstrom
Ray Liotta .... Dean Cumanno/Vinny Staggliano
Jason Lee .... Jack Withrowe
Anne Bancroft .... Gloria Vogal/Barbara
Jeffrey Jones .... Mr Appel
Gene Hackman .... William B Tensy
Nora Dunn .... Miss Madress
Julio Oscar Mechoso .... Leo
Sarah Silverman .... Linda
Zach Galifianakis .... Bill
Michael Hitchcock .... Dr Arnold Davis
Robert Dunn .... Screenwriter
Paul Guay .... Screenwriter
Stephen Mazu .... Screenwriter
David Mirkin .... Director

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Theatrical report

Heart-breakers, dream takers, soul breakers, don't you mess around with me, no, no, no!

Heart-breakers is the gal pal version of Dirty rotten scoundrels, itself a play on the comedic con game genre. Being generic, Heart-breakers never quite manages to bring you any big surprises even though it's still quite funny in places, most originally when Sigourney (as Ulga Yevanova) breaks into song at the Russian club. Can you guess the name of the song she sings before she gets to the chorus? It's a classic moment.

Jennifer Love plays a ditzy tweenie with a penchant for spray on dresses and it doesn't seem to stretch her at all. Jason continues to lift his acting stature from the adolescent Brodie Bruce in Mallrats, up to the only slightly annoying Banky Edwards in Chasing Amy, to a nice cameo in Enemy of the state, to skateboarding geek Skip Skipperton in the slightly underrated Mumford. Most recently he was Jeff Bebe, the pissed-off lead singer of Stillwater in Almost famous. Not a bad record for a high school dropout turned pro-skateboarder. In Heart-breakers, he's the romantic interest for Jennifer Love, combining cuteness with sensitivity and real feelings. It's hard - and important - to play the straight man to a two-dimensional character like Page but Jason pulls it off with no trouble at all.

No-one eats Ray's brains.

If you want a light break from the harsh realities of life, then pick up Heart-breakers: a lite film with only 1 calorie.