The Heartbreak Kid (2007)

Directors:

Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Scot Armstrong (screenplay) and
Leslie Dixon (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

5. Oktober 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie | Romanze

Werbezeile:

Love blows

Plot:

A newlywed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon.

Plot Keywords:

Old Flame | Urination Scene | Sex | Homophobia | Thrown From Train

Nutzerkommentare:

The Farrelly's Return to Form...Not!

Besetzung

Ben Stiller	...	Eddie Cantrow
Malin Akerman	...	Lila
Michelle Monaghan	...	Miranda
Jerry Stiller	...	Doc
Rob Corddry	...	Mac
Carlos Mencia	...	Uncle Tito
Scott Wilson	...	Boo
Ali Hillis	...	Jodi
Polly Holliday	...	Beryl
Danny R. McBride	...	Martin
Roy Jenkins	...	Buzz
Nicol Paone	...	Hostess
Stephanie Courtney	...	Gayla
Amy Sloan	...	Deborah
Jerry Sherman	...	Grandpa Anderson

Alternativ:

Seven Day Itch (USA) (working title)
Untitled Farrelly Brothers Project (USA) (working title)
Nach 7 Tagen - Ausgeflittert (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, crude humor and language.

Länge:

116 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Spanisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Altersfreigabe:

Canada:16+ (Quebec) | UK:15 (cut) | USA:R (certificate #43638) | Singapore:R21 | Taiwan:R-18 | Finland:K-13 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Germany:12 | USA:R | Malaysia:U | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Netherlands:12 | Brazil:16 | Argentina:13 | Sweden:11 | Ireland:16 (cut) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Australia:MA | South Korea:18 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | UK:18 | France:Unrated | Italy:VM14 | New Zealand:R16 | Ireland:15 (video rating)

Drehorte:

Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Firma:

DreamWorks Pictures

Dies und das:

Release prints were shipped to some theaters under the fake title "Hansel". Hansel is a character in Zoolander (2001), another Ben Stiller movie.

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: Miranda tells Eddie that she coaches the women's lacrosse team at Ole Miss, a.k.a. The University of Mississippi. Ole Miss does not have a women's (or men's) lacrosse team.

Dialogzitate:

Doc: Now listen to me and listen to me good! When your wife, on her honeymoon, asks you to cock her, you cock her good, God damn it!

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt The Perfect Storm (2000)

Soundtrack:

El Mariachi Loco

The Farrelly's Return to Form...Not!

After 3 watered-down, toothless flicks (Shallow Hal, Stuck on You, and Fever Pitch), The Heartbreak Kid was The Farrelly Brothers' return to raunchy comedy. Trying to recapture the greatness of their biggest hit, There's Something about Mary, they hired Ben Stiller and a Cameron Diaz look-alike. The end result is heartbreakingly mediocre. The film, which tells the story of a newlywed (Stiller), whose bride (Akerman) goes loco only a couple of hours after their wedding, just isn't funny. In fact, all the good jokes were in the trailer. The remaining jokes either missed the mark (anything that has to do with Monaghan's Miranda), or were removed altogether from the Egyptian theatrical version (apparently, there's a hilarious love sequence). In addition, due to sloppy writing, I found myself rooting for the bad "guy" (Akerman's Lila), and thought Stiller's Eddie was a jerk, as he cheated on his wife during their honeymoon. If that wasn't enough, the film is far too long (over 2 hours) and the last 30 minutes are so dark for a "comedy" that they're painful to watch. The film's only redeeming factor is Akerman, who gives a charming performance. But even Akerman's charm can't save this trainwreck.