The Heartbreak Kid (1972) YTS - Download Yify Movie

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Maybe if you are planning on courting a

Maybe if you are planning on courting a man’s daughter, telling him that you are a newlywed isn’t the best tactic? Well that’s a clue as to the obsession faced by the hapless “Lenny” (Charles Grodin) who has just called mazel tov with new wife “Lila” (Jeannie Berlin) and driven to the coast for their honeymoon. It doesn’t take him long, though, before he finds himself on a certain spot on the beach that belongs to “Kelly” (Cybill Shepherd). Then it’s her seat at the bar, indeed just about everywhere he goes she appears close behind. He takes quite a shine to her, and as luck would have it his poor wife gets a serious dose of sunburn which confines her to bed. Whilst she is bedridden, “Lenny” embarks on a series of daft shenanigans that culminates in him gatecrashing a dinner with whom he hopes will soon be his new, and wealthy, in-laws. Her mum (Audra Lindley) is polite enough but dad (Eddie Albert) wants nothing to do with this wastrel, and when the aforementioned declaration is made, well you can just imagination the reaction. Not to be deterred, “Lenny” decides he has to take matters into hand and try to do right by everyone, but what chance he isn’t just going to end up with an empty sack? There are four strong performances here and Neil Simon’s witty and pithy dialogue manages to keep the plot just about on the right side of contrived as the increasingly unlikeable “Lenny” let’s his hormones selfishly take over. There’s one scene with him, poor old “Lila”, some pecan pie (or not) and a quarter for the toilet that is really quite cringingly funny to watch play out but it rather epitomises his character whilst allowing the frequently scene-stealing Berlin to positively but quite subtly shine. I can’t say I loved the ending but along the way it does poke a little fun at Jewish neuroses, holiday romances and the superciliousness of the male ego.

Reviewed by dougdoepke

Humor and Pathos at the Same Time

The movie's a comedy, I think, though it produces as many cringes as laughs. It's hard not to laugh at poor Lila (Berlin) as she flubs her honeymoon with sunburn crème blotches, oozing egg sandwiches, and ill-timed bathroom breaks. But then she's so emotionally needy, it's hard not to laugh and cry at the same time. On the other hand, husband Lenny's (Grodin) got all the empathy of a ham sandwich, as he chases after blonde goddess Kelly (Shepherd), piling one absence excuse on Lila after another. This is the honeymoon from heck, especially after the goddess-struck Lenny sues for divorce. But then he does grant Lila "the luggage".The humor's in the character set-ups, and Lenny's special brand of chutzpah. A little fast- talking, he thinks, gets him out of any situation. That is, until he runs into Kelly's humorless dad (Albert). Seems like the proverbial irresistible force has run into the immovable object. But has it. Grodin's appropriately obnoxious when Lenny needs to be; Berlin's vulnerable when Lila needs to be; Shepherd's gorgeous without trying; while Albert's stony mug belongs on Mt. Rushmore. And catch that contemplative ending, not what I expected, but probably appropriate for what's gone before.All in all, the movie's something of a guilty pleasure and certainly one of a kind. I do, however, miss Grodin's smirking brand of put-on.

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The Heartbreak Kid

1972

Comedy / Drama / Romance

The Heartbreak Kid

1972

Comedy / Drama / Romance

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Maybe if you are planning on courting a

Humor and Pathos at the Same Time

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