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The Heartbreak Kid is a 2007 remake of the 1972 movie, starring Ben Stiller in the lead role. Ben plays Eddie, the owner of a sports store, who falls in love with a lady and marries her without ...
The Heartbreak Kid reunites Stiller with the whacky minds of the Farrelly Brothers, the creators of the 1998 smash-hit There’s Something About Mary. The gross-out, unpredictable and off-the-wall ...
The first few reels of The Heartbreak Kid cracked me up harder than any part of any movie has cracked me up in the last six months: The term "gut-busting" has always irked me, with its saggy ...
Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s remake — if you can even call it that — of Elaine May and Neil Simon’s “The Heartbreak Kid” marks the first time in my life I haven’t laughed at Jerry Stiller.
The Farrelly Brothers remade The Heartbreak Kid and cast Ben Stiller as the eponymous kid. They also cast Jerry as his on-screen father, a foul-mouthed wingman who gives him naughty dating advice.
Everybody loves to humiliate Ben Stiller. From "There's Something About Mary" to "Meet the Parents" (and its almost-equal sequel, "Meet the Fockers"), watching Stiller squirm generally means major ...
With their smart, hilarious update of “The Heartbreak Kid” the Farrelly brothers make mincemeat of the (often correct) theory that good movies should never be remade. Cleverly bending the ...
After spending Valentine’s Day at his ex’s fairytale wedding, the marriage-shy Eddie meets Lila (Malin Akerman) when — in a display of Old World gallantry — he tries to stop a purse-snatcher.
Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The film is based on a 1972 Elaine May film from a script by Neil Simon—a mildly cynical PG-rated affair that has here been ...
The stars: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, Malin Akerman. The story: Forty-year-old Eddie (Ben Stiller) is sure he's met the perfect girl in Lila (Akerman), and a mere few weeks ...
The Heartbreak Kid. By EW Staff. Published on October 4, 2007 04:00AM EDT. ... Stiller was a big fan of Elaine May’s 1972 ... Jerry. ”I could see it being very different from the original ...
There’s a moment early on in The Heartbreak Kid where Jerry Stiller, playing movie father to his real life son Ben Stiller’s character, suggests his boy stop worrying about romance and in ...