Heartbreakers (DVD)

Never in my life have I seen a film that depends so much on the breasts of it's stars. Each scene seems to feature more cleavage than the last, to the point where at the end it's amazing they are still bothering with clothes at all. This is obviously shamelessly done to pull in the male audience to what will be regarded by them as a "chick flick", but it's a shame that it distracts the viewer away from the film itself, which amongst all of it's cliches does actually have some intelligent comments to make. Heartbreakers focuses on a mother and daughter con-team. The mother, Max (Sigourney Weaver) spends months in relationships with men until they ...  Read the complete review

8 years after it was brought out, I have finally watched this film. It was recommended by my boyfriend, which either shows that my boyfriend is in fact a girl or that while it's target audience are "chicks" it does reach a male audience as well. I love this film to the point that I think I must say that along side Pretty Woman it is one of my favourite films. It is about a mother and daughter, who con men into marrying the mother, just so the daughter can allure them prompting the mother to file for a divorce on the basis of "my husband couldn't keep it in his pants for 24 hours". But by the end of the film, the ...  Read the complete review

This is one of my all time favourite films, I saw it for the first time at the cinema over seven years ago and I still enjoy it as much now as I did on the first viewing. My synopsis will be very brief as I cannot say much without giving away too much of the story and unravelling the narrative is certainly a large part of this films enjoyment. Mother (Sigourney Weaver) and Daughter (Jennifer Love-Hewitt) are two con artists who persuade men to marry them in a short space of time. After an uneventful wedding night the man is presented with the potential for an extra-marital affair that is discovered by the wife. She then divorces him taking half his assets. ...  Read the complete review

As I've said before, I often use online reviews to plan what films I watch on TV. This time I didn't see the trailer until quite short notice, and didn't have time. I wish I had, because it might have saved me two not particularly amusing hours of my life… It looked so promising. Sigourney Weavers as Max Conners, Jennifer Love Hewitt as her daughter Page, Ray Liotta as Dean Cumanno and Gene Hackman as William B. Tensy. With those big names, it couldn't go far wrong could it? Think again! The movie opens with the wedding night of Max (Weaver) and Dean (Liotta), but when Dean goes into work the next morning, he ends up cheating on his new wife ...  Read the complete review

Death Becomes Her, which featured Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis, was chiefly remembered for its high tech special effects which had all sorts of weird and wonderful nastiness befall its twin female leads with no apparently lasting damage - but it also featured an exceptionally sharp and dark element of black humour and some genuinely witty ensemble playing. It was a hugely enjoyable piece of entertainment and boasted enough depth to keep you going for a good long time, remaining to this day one of my favourite American comedy movies. Heartbreakers, featuring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Gene Hackman, owes a substantial debt to ...  Read the complete review