Heartbreakers (2001 film)
Heartbreakers is a 2001 caperromantic comedy film directed by David Mirkin. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, and Gene Hackman. Weaver was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for her performance in the film. The plot revolves around an elaborate con set up by a motherdaughter team to swindle wealthy men out of their money, and what happens during their last con together.
Max and Page Conners Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt are a motherdaughter con artist team. When the film opens, the Conners are finishing a con on Dean Cumanno Ray Liotta, an autobody shop owner and smalltime crook. The con, which the Conners have played many times before on other men, involves Max marrying Dean, passing out on their wedding night to avoid consummating the marriage, and then Page posing as Deans secretary luring Dean into a compromising position to justify Maxs immediate divorce and hefty settlement. The con is a success.Page declares that she wants to go solo. Max initially relents, but when they go to the bank to split their earnings, theyre confronted by an IRS agent Anne Bancroft who declares that they owe the government a considerable sum on top of the rest of their savings, which have already been seized. Page reluctantly agrees to work one last con with Max in Palm Beach, so to get enough money to pay off the IRS and set Page up to work on her own. For their target, they choose widower William B. Tensy Gene Hackman, a tobacco baron who is addicted to his own product. ........
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