No longer top dogs in the Hollywood pound when it comes to blending frat boy yucks and icks with feel-good feelings – that honor now goes to Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen – the Farrelly Brothers redo Neil Simon and Elaine May’s perennially popular 1972 comedy THE HEARTBREAK KID. The results feel slack – sometimes funny, but slack.
Forty-years-old and still too scared to get married, San Francisco sports emporium owner Eddie Cantrow (Ben Stiller) finally screws up his courage and pops the question to a woman he really doesn't know very well. Lila (Malin Akerman), a pretty young environmental researcher whom he met while attempting to foil her mugger one aftern...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
115 mins