The Heartbreak Kid (1972) Movie Review
The Heartbreak Kid (1972) Review
"The Heartbreak Kid (1972)" Overview
Rating: PG
1972
Cast and Crew
Director : Elaine MayProducer : Edgar J. Scherick
Screenwiter : Neil Simon
Starring : Charles Grodin,Cybill Shepherd,Jeannie Berlin,Audra Lindley,Eddie Albert
Long before Meet the Parents, there was The Heartbreak Kid. Genuinely funny, Kid features Charles Grodin as a hapless and sappy ex-G.I. who decides to dump his new wife -- on his honeymoon in Florida -- after falling for a young blonde played with perfect coyness by Shepherd. Genuinely funny thanks to Grodin's prodigious comic talents, though Eddie Albert nearly steals the show as Shephard's heard-it-all father. Now about that ending (or lack of one)...
Reviewer: Christopher Null
