Critic Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Heartbreakers is "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" plus Gene Hackman as W.C. Fields. I guess that's enough to recommend it. It's not a great comedy, but it's a raucous one, hard-working and ribald, and I like its spirit.
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's not a pretty picture, but it is a pretty funny one when Gene Hackman shows up as William B. Tensy, a Palm Beach tobacco tycoon.
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63
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Crudely entertaining comedy.
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63
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Heartbreakers is too long by a half-hour, and there are entire sketches (including a horrid nightclub sequence with Weaver trying to sing in Russian) that could be mercifully sacrificed.
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Heartbreakers itself is something of a con game: an expensive imitation of older, better films from older, often better times.
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50
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Never tickles your nasty bone, perhaps because, in an era when the gossip pages are dotted with news of celebrity prenups, the prospect of marriage as a route to instant fortune seems less scandalous than it does like business as usual.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Lacks the kind of rhythm and snap to make it work -- and allows this fitfully entertaining romp to dribble on way too long.
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50
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USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
The nasty, overlong and undisciplined sourball of a sex farce about a mother-daughter con team will nonetheless satisfy bigenerational libidinous fantasies.
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Miami Herald Curtis Morgan
When the youngsters are out of the way and old pros Hackman and Weaver work, it's hard to really dislike Heartbreakers. Sometimes, it's even a little bit of harmless fun.
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
There's nothing wrong with the structure of Heartbreakers, but David Mirkin's direction is woefully clumsy -- and the movie's tone is nasty.
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