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THE HEARTBREAK KID
1972
Director
Elaine May
Starring
Charles Grodin
Jeannie Berlin
Cybill Shepherd
Audra Lindley
Eddie Albert
Runtime
105 MINUTES
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Elaine May’s outrageously funny and ruthless THE HEARTBREAK KID was an instant hit in 1972. Critics loved the film. The Saturday Review deemed it “a triumph of New York Jewish humor”—and it is still widely considered to be one of the funniest American movies ever made. And yet, due to rights issues, it’s been nearly impossible to see for years….
This July, join us at the Beacon for the welcome return of Elaine May’s untouchable comedy classic to the big screen!
May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a never-slimier Charles Grodin in a career high as a newlywed who decides to leave his Jewish wife (Jeannie Berlin) for an icy shiksa goddess (Cybill Shepherd)… on their honeymoon. Working from a Neil Simon script, May fashioned the height of cringe-inducing comedy—imitated, remade, but never to be outdone. While this marvelously acerbic, fearless take on American mores, gender expectations, and all-around transgression received Oscar nominations for Jeannie Berlin’s devastating (and hilarious) take on the bride done dirty and Eddie Albert as Shepard’s rightfully suspicious patrician dad, Grodin’s charming snake was overlooked, despite—or because of—it being cinema’s preeminent master class in double-talking, short-circuiting male toxicity. THE HEARTBREAK KID is a witheringly funny story of romanticized sexual longing running smack up against reality.
“THE HEARTBREAK KID is a movie that manages the marvelous and very peculiar trick of blending the mechanisms and the cruelties of Neil Simon’s comedy with the sense and sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” — New York Times
This July, join us at the Beacon for the welcome return of Elaine May’s untouchable comedy classic to the big screen!
May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a never-slimier Charles Grodin in a career high as a newlywed who decides to leave his Jewish wife (Jeannie Berlin) for an icy shiksa goddess (Cybill Shepherd)… on their honeymoon. Working from a Neil Simon script, May fashioned the height of cringe-inducing comedy—imitated, remade, but never to be outdone. While this marvelously acerbic, fearless take on American mores, gender expectations, and all-around transgression received Oscar nominations for Jeannie Berlin’s devastating (and hilarious) take on the bride done dirty and Eddie Albert as Shepard’s rightfully suspicious patrician dad, Grodin’s charming snake was overlooked, despite—or because of—it being cinema’s preeminent master class in double-talking, short-circuiting male toxicity. THE HEARTBREAK KID is a witheringly funny story of romanticized sexual longing running smack up against reality.
“THE HEARTBREAK KID is a movie that manages the marvelous and very peculiar trick of blending the mechanisms and the cruelties of Neil Simon’s comedy with the sense and sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” — New York Times