I slept through the first 45 minutes of Heartbreakers, a comedy with Sigorney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt playing a mother/daughter con team. So I can't comment on the entire film.
It goes on too long--chop chop chop! And the plot devices vis a vis daughter's romance with feckless bar owner is insultingly silly. But on sex appeal alone, this movie delivers a wallop. No rivalry between mother and daughter, for the very sensible reason that it would be laughable to present Weaver as somehow less delectable due to her age. Thus both women are sumptuously packaged throughout. And the love interest, Jason Lee, is quite the hottie, even if I preferred him with long hair a la Almost Famous.
But the movie works nicely as an entry in the brutally heartless comedy genre, if not quite the farce it could have been. This is due largely to Weaver's considerable comic talents and supporting work by Gene Hackman and Ray Liotta as Next Suitor Prospect and Prior Marital Payoff, respectively.
Hackman's hack (heh) will make you ill, but if you can get beyond that then it's his best work in years. And Liotta: lordy, I've missed Liotta. I wish he were around more. I didn't catch his work in the first half, when he is set up by the duo, but his reappearance in the last half hour is sufficient to justify the rental, in my view.
I remain continually perplexed by Liotta's career decisions; he just turned down a role on the Sopranos.
