Heartbreakers

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Heartbreakers

R,

1984,

1h 38m,

Drama

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80%

10 Reviews

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53%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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10 Reviews

53%

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Blue (Peter Coyote) and Eli (Nick Mancuso) are buddies living in a bohemian subculture of Los Angeles. Blue is an artist waiting for recognition, while Eli is a businessman waiting for his father to bequeath him the family lingerie factory. They are both looking for love, sex or some combination thereof and engage meanwhile in friendly competition with one another. When Liliane (Carole Laure) arrives on the scene, their friendship is severely tested and they must decide what is truly important.

Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Sep 13, 2023

Heartbreakers becomes more involving as it goes on, and when it’s over, you feel you’ve seen something (even if you’re not quite sure what).

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David Denby

New York Magazine/Vulture

Dec 31, 2019

How interesting is childishness in grown men? Less than Bobby Roth thinks. Yet Roth brings a natural filmmaker's intensity to the material. When I play this movie over in my head, I laugh at it, but I'm still enjoying it, too.

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Time Out Staff

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

Add a pulsating Tangerine Dream score and Michael Ballhaus' glowing photography, and the result is an emotional cocktail that is provocative, touching and witty as hell.

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Peter Canavese

Celluloid Dreams

Aug 7, 2022

2.5/4

A typically strong special edition blu-ray from Fun City Editions--a buddy picture about the volatile, horny, jealous male ego. On that level it works pretty well but hard to watch today because the women are portrayed as strictly foils for the men.

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Lori Hoffman

Atlantic City Weekly

Apr 20, 2007

3/5

Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dec 19, 2005

B+

A perceptive buddy film about thirtysomethings learning they are no longer boys and have to face the pitfalls of growing up.

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Finn S

Feb 24, 2017

Drama about best friends. One an artist who lost his long-time girlfriend and the other a man who has been non-committal to women. Never really saw the point of where this was going other than two friends who stick together even when one sleeps with the other's girlfriend. Film never followed up on Eli's dad dying and leaving him with a business in trouble.

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Synopsis

Blue (Peter Coyote) and Eli (Nick Mancuso) are buddies living in a bohemian subculture of Los Angeles. Blue is an artist waiting for recognition, while Eli is a businessman waiting for his father to bequeath him the family lingerie factory. They are both looking for love, sex or some combination thereof and engage meanwhile in friendly competition with one another. When Liliane (Carole Laure) arrives on the scene, their friendship is severely tested and they must decide what is truly important.

Director: Bobby Roth
Producer: Bob Weis, Bobby Roth
Screenwriter: Bobby Roth
Production Co: Jethro Films Production
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: Surround

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