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MOTHER DEAR: Max (Sigourney Weaver) on the prowl.
Heartbreakers
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman
Dir: David Merkin
WANT TO have a few laughs? Want to see Sigourney Weaver play super cool femme fatale? Want to drool over Jennifer Love Hewitt's lovely body? Want to watch a hilarious performance by Gene Hackman? If your answer to any of these is yes, just head for Heartbreakers, which is an inoffensive, happy comedy that does what it promises -- it makes you laugh.
Max and Page are a brilliant mother-daughter con team. Max snares elderly men and gets them to marry her. Then with Page's help, the newly wed husbands are caught in a compromising situation, which leads to divorce, and a fat marriage settlement.
All has gone well thirteen times till Page, tired of the small fry, decides to set to make a big hit. Sights are set on William B Tensy the multi-billionaire owner of Tensy Tobacco. Tensy is one of those sweet natured guys who believes everyone should smoke (the younger the better) even though his horrible, hacking cough is a walking advertisement for the ill effects of smoking.
Page in the meantime meets up with Jack who is not the humble bartender - he owns the bar and has been offered three million dollars for it. She decides on a simultaneous con even though Max is against it. Complications abound as Page finds herself falling in love with cutie pie Jack and Max's husband number 13, a mafia type goon called Dean comes in search for her. There is also an IRS official and Tensy's tartar housekeeper to foul up the pitch.
While Sigourney Weaver takes a break from the tough Ripley kind of role to have a blast as Max and the Russian "Olga," Jennifer Love Hewitt wears teeny-weeny itsy bitsy clothes to flaunt her body beautiful.
Gene Hackman thoroughly enjoys himself reverberating cough and all as Tensy but the greatest fun guy is Ray Liotta as Dean. He is just beyond as the slightly thick Moose type thug. His conversation about his job with Jack's mum is a too cool.
The plot goes a little off towards the end with a few loose ends but the movie is fun and you can laugh at it which is more than one can say about some other films billed to be comedies.
MAC
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