Cybill Shepherd: The Heartbreak Kid - Movie

The Heartbreak Kid
Cast :	Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd
Director :	Elaine May
Studio :	Anchor Bay Entertain
Format :	Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
Released Date :	January 01, 1972
DVD Released Date :	February 05, 2002
Language :	English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed)
Audience Rating :	PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Customer Reviews

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Date	June 16, 2005
Summary	Favorite movie
Content	This movie is absolutely wonderful. It is completely hilarious. The acting is done wonderfully by Charles Grodin. This is one of his best films of all time. Also, the extra sexy Cybill Shepherd is an absolute doll in this movie as usual. This helps to make the movie even more riveting. I cannot say enough good things about this movie.

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Date	September 03, 2004
Summary	Very very funny
Content	A film directed by Elaine May, written by Neil Simon, based on a story by Bruce Jay Friedman. If that's not good pedigree, I don't know what is. Admittedly, plenty of fine filmmakers have made bilge, but this one lives up to expectaions - it's fantastic. One of the all-time funniest Jewish comedies, I watch it every year. It's the best thing Charles Grodin ever made, and Jeannie Berlin plays her part perfectly. It sounds a lofty claim, but for me this film is close to perfection. It's a low-key film, so it tends to get overlooked - even by people who know it - but it's hard to think of anything in it that could have been done better. It's generally funny and sometimes hilarious. The breakup scene at the restaurant is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. And there's one other thing - there's something about films made in the early '70s. They have something. And this is one of the best of them.

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Date	February 28, 2003
Summary	"There is no deceit in the cauliflower."
Content	Charles Grodin is hilarious (as are his sideburns) and pathetic as a man who, while on his honeymoon, falls in love with another woman. He decides to prove himself to Cybil Shepard (the woman he's fallen in love with) and her father (rich, conservative, loathes Grodin) by leaving his wife in mid-honeymoon and following Cybil and her family back to Minnesota and trying to win her hand in marriage. Classic lines include: "Don't... don't do that, honey. Don't ever put a Milky Way in someone's mouth when they don't want it." and "There is no deceit in the cauliflower." One thing I found surprising about this movie is that Charles Grodin's character isn't really all that likable. For that matter, pretty much everyone in this film is somewhat morally bankrupt. Not that that's a bad thing... it just surprised me because the screenplay is by Neil Simon, whose stuff tends to be a bit lighter. All in all, this is definitely worth seeking out... it'll take you back to the days when movie-makers actually knew how to make a comedy that was FUNNY...

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Date	February 14, 2002
Summary	A Great American Comedy
Content	Thankfully, Anchor Bay(Genuises!!!) has re-issued this classic comedy with a nice widescreen transfer. It's a fantastic film and deserves a nice dvd. Though the dvd has little in the way of extras, I was still pleased as it one of my favorite films. I rank it right up there with great American comedies like ANNIE HALL. It's certainly the darkest stuff that Neil Simon's ever had a hand in. Grodin, Berlin, Albert and Shepherd-they're all excellent here. A great film from a great female directorial voice(Elaine May-who also directed A NEW LEAF with Walter Matthau-why is there no dvd for that film yet!). At a low list price, this film is impossible to pass up on dvd!

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Date	December 04, 2000
Summary	The Great Gatsby With a Twist
Content	Lenny is a repulsive, vapid nonentity who, with nothing but ambition, represents the most ugly kind of American imaginable, the ruthless upwardly mobile narcissist who will trample on anyone--including his wife--to get what he wants, namely, Cybil Shepherd, who plays a young woman from a family of old money. To use a cliche, watching this movie is like watching a car wreck. You cringe, you laugh, you shake your head in disbelief (yet you believe all the same!) as Lenny, played by Charles Grodin, manipulates his bovine wife and sets the stage to marry the Cybil Shepherd character. I've seen this movie a half a dozen times over the last twenty-five years and feel compelled to hail it a masterpiece, a variation of The Great Gatsby theme.

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