Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.
Hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.
– Charles Taylor,
Salon.com,
23 Mar 2001
rotten:
Unless you're a Hackman aficionado, there's no reason to bother with Heartbreakers.
– Edward Guthmann,
San Francisco Chronicle,
23 Mar 2001
fresh:
Heartbreakers is one of these guilty pleasures.
– John Zebrowski,
Seattle Times,
23 Mar 2001
rotten:
Director David Mirkin, whose Romy and Michele's High School Reunion was similarly afflicted, never gets the timing right and allows the story to drag with little internal logic.