1. The Heartbreak Kid movie review (1972) | Roger Ebert
It's a comedy, but there's more in it than that; it's a movie about the ways we pursue, possess, and consume each other as sad commodities.
We know as early as the wedding scene -- which opens the film -- that Elaine May's "The Heartbreak Kid" was directed with a sure feeling for how comedy can
2. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) Movie Review | Common Sense Media
28 apr 2023 · Discussion-worthy '70s anti-romantic comedy. Read Common Sense Media's The Heartbreak Kid (1972) review, age rating, and parents guide.
Discussion-worthy '70s anti-romantic comedy. Read Common Sense Media's The Heartbreak Kid (1972) review, age rating, and parents guide.
3. Lost and Found: The Heartbreak Kid | Sight and Sound - BFI
5 jul 2023 · It's enough to make Charles Grodin's Lenny squint when faced with its full force, in Elaine May's dark comedy The Heartbreak Kid (1972). They ...
Elaine May’s bleak anti-romantic comedy is overshadowed by the Farrelly brothers’ crude 2007 remake. About time this masterpiece of disillusion, self-loathing and destructive daydreaming was seen on its own account
4. The Heartbreak Kid | Rotten Tomatoes
During their honeymoon in Miami, Lenny meets beautiful and sophisticated Kelly (Cybill Shepherd). Every chance he gets, Lenny sneaks away from Lila to be with ...
Soon after Lenny (Charles Grodin) marries Lila (Jeannie Berlin), the needy and unrefined side of her personality begins to emerge, and he becomes increasingly uncertain about his decision to marry her. During their honeymoon in Miami, Lenny meets beautiful and sophisticated Kelly (Cybill Shepherd). Every chance he gets, Lenny sneaks away from Lila to be with Kelly, and the more he gets to know her, the more he falls in love. Problems arise when the two women learn about each another.
5. Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid Has Never Looked Better - The Film Stage
5 sep 2022 · ... 1972 black-comedy masterpiece The Heartbreak Kid. Following the journey of immediate regret and romantic conniving on the part of Charles ...
If you’ve had any desire to see one of the greatest films ever made in its proper form, you’re out of luck. Unless you’ve been able to catch one of its rare 35mm screenings or got your hands on an even-rarer (and poor-quality) out-of-print DVD, you’ve likely had to resort to a shoddy-looking YouTube rip
6. THE HEARTBREAK KID at 50: Winning is never as fun as trying to ...
15 dec 2022 · The film “doesn't constantly bow to Neil Simon's script” (Ebert 1972), instead incorporating May's experience as an improviser to find the funny ...
by Caitlin Hart, Staff Writer Fifty years after its release, few filmgoers have seen Elaine May’s 1972 comic masterpiece The Heartbreak Kid . But everyone has encountered the film’s progeny, as its legacy stretches through the last five decades of American cinema, television, and comedy.
7. Worst Breakup: The Heartbreak Kid | Avidly - Los Angeles Review of Books
14 dec 2023 · It's midway through Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972) ... May adapted The Heartbreak Kid, her second film ... In the end, maybe this is why ...
This essay is part of Avidly’s Rom Com Superlatives series It’s midway through Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and newlywed couple Lenny and Lila are enjoying a seafood dinner in Miam…
8. Close to You: Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
10 jul 2019 · Manohla Dargis, “The Marvelous Ms. Elaine May,” The New York Times, 21 January 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/movies/elaine ...
9. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) - The Postmodern Pelican
22 sep 2019 · The first scene of The Heartbreak Kid starts where most movies end - with a wedding. We're introduced to Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), ...
The first scene of The Heartbreak Kid starts where most movies end – with a wedding. We’re introduced to Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a young man who is about to be wed to his sweeth…
10. 'The Heartbreak Kid' as Elaine May's Master Class | BW/DR
But Elaine May does not make movies like The Out of Towners. And the proximity of this earlier Simon script is auspicious, because it provides an ideal point of ...
Throughout The Heartbreak Kid, whenever possible, Elaine May makes the choice diametrically opposed to conventional comedic wisdom.
11. The Heartbreak Kid | Larsen On Film
He likes Lila just fine (I love how they enjoy singing — badly — together), but the prospect of sharing almost every single moment together for “the next 40 ...
The Heartbreak Kid is a war of the sexes comedy that leaves no side unscathed, thanks largely to the combined sensibilities of screenwriter Neil Simon and director Elaine May.
12. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) — A Truly Hilarious Take on Desire, Marriage ...
26 mrt 2021 · Sam: We saw each other. Hung out for a few weeks. Watched a lot of movies that we didn't review.
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13. Screening Alert: Elaine May's Masterly “The Heartbreak Kid”
30 jan 2015 · Turner Classic Movies, the great virtual American cinémathèque, comes once more to the rescue, tonight at 8 P.M. (Eastern time), ...
For many men of a certain generation, “The Heartbreak Kid” left the definitive imprint of a romantic ideal.
14. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) - Film Critic: Adrian Martin
... 1972). Elaine May is the most underrated director in American cinema. The Heartbreak Kid ... ever a mother directed her daughter in such a brave, extreme part?).
Elaine May is the most underrated director in American cinema. The Heartbreak Kid is the closest she has yet come to mainstream success, but it stays true to her corrosive, uncompromising vision.
15. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) - Movie Review / Film Essay
As every minute passes, some new detail crops up to create further distance between the newlyweds – to make them just that much more embarrassingly disparate.
A detailed and comprehensive film synopsis, analysis, and critique.
16. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) screening at Metrograph - GoldDerby
27 jun 2024 · A rare print of the film was shown in New York this week.
Carrie Courogan titled her new book about Elaine May, the legendary writer, director, and comic, “Miss May Does Not Exist.” But for some, it might feel like May’s feature films don’t necessarily ei…
17. THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972) – AFI Movie Club | American Film Institute
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A black comedy starring Cybill Shepherd, Charles Grodin and Jennie Berlin, THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972) was directed by the great Elaine May from a script by Neil Simon – and earned a place among the greatest filmed comedies of all time, according to the American Film Institute. The film also featured production design from AFI Honorary Degree recipient Richard Sylbert. Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about THE HEARTBREAK KID. Have Get The Picture delivered to your inbox every day.
18. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) directed by Elaine May • Reviews, film + cast
Charles Grodin has always been one of the best “put upon” actors I've ever known but this movie also shows what a joy it is to watch him be a undeservingly ...
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants to be with Kelly instead.
19. Re-Make/Re-Model: The Heartbreak Kid (1972) vs ... - Spectrum Culture
14 okt 2012 · But where the kids in May's film were natural and childlike, those of the remake talk in that irritatingly precocious way that kids in movies ...
Remakes have been around nearly as long as Hollywood itself, and not always for the reasons or with the results you’d think. Spectrum Culture’s new feature Re-Make/Re-Model will examine the long history of cinematic remakes, the good movies turned great, the bad ideas turned worse and the weird ones turned boring. Released well before Elaine …