Angela: Sigourney Weaver	Page: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Dean: Ray Liotta	Jack: Jason Lee
Gloria: Anne Bancroft	Hotel Maid: Pat Belcher
William Tensy: Gene Hackman	Director: David Mirkin

30 Second Bottom Line: Two con women, one the mother and the other the daughter, work a scam where the mom marries men so she can get a fat divorce settlement after finding the new husband in a sexually compromising position with the daughter. This comedy has cons trumping other cons.

Story Line: Angela and Page (Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt) have a great con going for themselves. Angela finds well-to-do men (marks) whom she convinces to marry her in no more than four months. By the time the marriage takes place, Page is working in the target's business as a personal assistant of one sort or the other. The poor guy never knows she's the lovely Angela's daughter. The courtship is a celibate one. After the vows are taken and there is a honeymoon night…without sex, the husband is super horny. The next day Angela manages to visit her new husband, in this case Dean (Ray Liotta), only to find him in an embarrassing position with Page's hair stuck in his pants zipper. Fast forward to a conference room with divorce attorneys and Angela walks away with a big settlement…supposedly heart broken.

Page wants to get out on her own after ripping off Dean, a con man who owns an auto chop shop; but Angela convinces her to do one more job. This one is to be in Palm Beach, Florida, where the old money hangs out and William Tensy (Gene Hackman) is the mark. He's the CEO of a tobacco company who chain smokes, and hacks so much he sounds like he's ready to die at any minute.

While Angela works the main rip off with Tensy, Page does her supporting act to set up certain events for Angela to play heroine in his life. Page is also working her own scam on bartender Jack (Jason Lee). He owns a bar his dad willed to him that can bring $3 million in cash from a local developer. A major problem develops when she falls in love with him.

People kiss, try to make love but can't, for one reason or the other; marriages take place, followed quickly by divorce and huge settlements. There's a laugh a minute with lots of eye candy for the boys and men looking at Jennifer and Sigourney.

Tell Me More About It: This movie almost has the edge and polish of The Whole Nine Yards. It too was a tongue in cheek comedy; but it was a much better film, with a constantly evolving story. Here, Weaver and Hewitt play the same old tune the entire movie. Weaver is the sexy 40 year old who schemes to get everything free, whether a tank of gas, dinner at a nice restaurant, or a suite at a fancy Palm Beach hotel. Hewitt's routine is to run around the entire movie in short, tight dresses of various colors. The plot development stalls on what is a great premise, and has the sinister approach of The Last Seduction.

Ray Liotta is enjoyable in part because he has his full brain in tact, as compared to his role in Hannibal. Jason Lee again shows the laid back cool he had in Almost Famous. While opposites often attract, he appears to be too subtle and honest to ever marry a woman who clearly is morally defective. You know they'll end up together, and when they do, it is not even remotely believable.

Possibly the biggest problem with the film was my high expectations. Weaver can be campy as she showed in Galaxy Quest. Add a sexy daughter working a con with her on Hackman and Liotta, and you have the potential for big time fun.

If you are OK with lots of little laughs mixed with more than a few duds, this may perk up your mood if you've had a dreary day or an exhausting week. Heartbreakers is not funny enough to make you cry, but it will make you laugh.

Sigourney Weaver: Galaxy Quest	Jennifer Love Hewitt: I Still know what you did last summer
Ray Liotta: Hannibal	Jason Lee: Almost Famous
Anne Bancroft: Up at the Villa	Pat Belcher: uncredited
Gene Hackman: All the Pretty Horses	David Mirkin: The Edge