Heartbreakers (2001)

A mother and daughter con team seduce and scam wealthy men.

Director:

David Mirkin

Writers:

Robert Dunn, Paul Guay

Stars:

Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman

4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sigourney Weaver	...	Angela Nardino / Max Conners / Ulga Yevanova
Jennifer Love Hewitt	...	Wendy / 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
Ricky Jay	...	Dawson's Auctioneer
Sarah Silverman	...	Linda
Zach Galifianakis	...	Bill
Michael Hitchcock	...	Dr. Arnold Davis
Pierre Gonneau	...	Priest at First Wedding
Shawn Colvin	...	Minister at Second Wedding

Storyline

Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.

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Plot Keywords:

revolver | female criminal | femme fatale | mother daughter team | decolletage | 

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Taglines:

They will love you for richer. And leave you for poorer.

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sex-related content including dialogue

Details

Official Sites:

MGM

Country:

USA

Language:

English Russian

Release Date:

23 March 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

heartBREAKeRS

Filming Locations:

The Breakers Resort, Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$11,801,323, 25 March 2001, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$40,336,607

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$57,756,408

Company Credits

Production Co:

Davis Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

123 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The most expensive shot in the movie was when Jennifer Love Hewitt leaned against the car to talk to Ray Liotta near the end of the movie. Because it was cold on set, she had a white sweatshirt around her waist that was in the shot, and it had to be digitally taken out.

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Goofs

When Max is hanging on to the dead body of William Tensy, he moves his leg so that he can stand on it better.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Priest at First Wedding: Do you, Angela Nardino, take Dean Cumanno as your lawfully wedded husband? To love, honor, and obey, 'til death do you part?
Angela Nardino: I do.

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Alternate Versions

The DVD release contains 20 deleted scenes. These include:

• Maxine and Paige are exercising in the hotel's fitness center. - Maxine and Tensy playing a depressing game of Scrabble. - Paige and Maxine arguing about what they are going to wear on Paige's date with Jack.

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Connections

Referenced in Jersey Girl (2004)

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Soundtracks

Ave Maria
Performed by St. Cyril's Choir
Under the Direction of William Beck

User Reviews

Utterly delicious!

Stories this luscious and sumptuous, well directed and seamlessly edited, with characters faultlessly portrayed by an outstanding cast, come along rarely, and this is one of the best. It is so good that there are not superlatives enough to do it credit. The basic setup is that the principal characters, a mother, tantalizingly portrayed by Weaver, and her daughter, multifacetedly portrayed by Hewett, are "artistes confidence" to the core of their superficial existences. They cannot so much as have "lunch" without practicing their arts of the scam, but mainly they work the old "betrothal" game. Mom gets her rich mark to the alter, then even before the marriage can be consummated, the daughter, pretending to be unrelated, exploits the man's foolish libido, resulting in a substantial settlement after mom catches them apparently "in flagrante." But then things start going haywire when the daughter decides to strike out on her own, because the guy she fixes on as a mark is not like other guys at all. How he is not, and how her character develops as a result, makes for two hours of outstanding comedy and drama.