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Fun With Actors Favorite Movie Quote: "Love is Pain. Life is pain; you can't protect anybody from it. It's always gonna get ya. But sometimes life could also be good. But you gotta be open. You gotta takes chances. You gotta let go." I'd probably go see this movie for any of the five principle actors within; the fact that all five of them are in it makes for a treat since the film is really just each of them individually and together setting up a laugh-fest. Heartbreakers features Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt) as a mother and daughter team of conwomen with an emphasis on duping the opposite sex. The sophistocated Max ensnares older men, which takes extra skill since she never gives up the, um, goods, building a level of abstinence in her mark so as to make them powerless against the likes of Page. Max walks in on the potential infidelity and walks away with a nice settlement, a slice of which she distributes to her daughter as kind of an allowance. Page wants to run her own con but is all Max has left in her life. When the two of them get conned out of their scammed earnings, Page agrees to one last big score, so long as it's their last together. What follows is a series of cons, lies, and actually funny slapstick, as Max and Page begining setting up their new mark, Tensy (Gene Hackman). Page, still wanting to prove she's as good on the grift as momma Max, stumbles upon laid back beach bum Jack (Jason Lee) who just happens to own the little run-down beach front bar in which he works; it's worth millions. Against her original intentions, Page falls for Jack; further mucking up the master plan is prior mark Dean (an hysterically funny Ray Liotta) who's hunting Max. This is one of those flicks where you can see how much fun it was to make and how much the cast was enjoying each other. Weaver and Hewitt are razor sharp in the mother-daughter dynamic, Weaver the wise experienced mentor, Hewitt the talented though clutzy student. The interactions between Weaver and Liotta, as well as Hewitt and Lee, are likewise perfect. Liotta is one of Hollywood's under-appreciated treasures, and Lee's at his best just being himself. Hackman, a non-smoker in real life, tortures himself with an endless stream of smoke as the cigarette mogul Tensy, complete with applied yellow teeth. Amidst the hilarity, Heartbreakers also has little life lessons about love and loss, manifested with both humor and sweetness in the love penticle. Certainly no morality play, the flick is still tons of fun in the realm of human interaction. email this review to a friend
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