The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
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A sports shop owner enters a rushed marriage and discovers his wife is a nightmare during their honeymoon in Mexico.
The story
Eddie Cantrow, a single sports shop owner in San Francisco, attends his former fiancée's wedding and finds himself on the 'singles table.' After a chance encounter with a woman named Lila, they begin dating. However, when Lila reveals she needs to move abroad for work, Eddie's father and best friend pressure him into a hasty marriage. The couple heads to Los Cabos, Mexico, for their honeymoon. Almost immediately, Eddie begins to realize that Lila's habits and personality are far from what he expected, leading to a series of comedic and disastrous complications as they navigate their new life together.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Eddie Cantrow, a San Francisco sports shop owner, marries Lila after only two months of dating due to pressure from his father and best friend. During their honeymoon in Los Cabos, Mexico, Eddie discovers Lila is aggressive in bed, has a history of substance abuse, and is dishonest about her past. While Lila suffers a severe sunburn and stays in their room, Eddie meets Miranda, a vacationer from Mississippi. A series of misunderstandings leads the family to believe Eddie is mourning a dead wife. After a disastrous lunch where Eddie tries to propose a divorce, Lila and Miranda both abandon him, and Lila strands him in Mexico by destroying his passport. Depressed, Eddie eventually travels to Mississippi to find Miranda, only to discover she has married someone else. He leaves her, but eighteen months later, he finds her in Mexico. She has left her husband and is still in love with him, but she is unaware that Eddie has already remarried a woman named Consuela.
- First release year
- 2007
- Runtime (minutes)
- 116
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Peter Farrelly; Bobby Farrelly
- Writers
- Scot Armstrong · screenplay; Leslie Dixon · screenplay; Peter Farrelly · screenplay; Bobby Farrelly · screenplay
- Cast and characters
- Ben Stiller · Eddie Cantrow; Michelle Monaghan · Miranda; Malin Åkerman · Lila Cantrow; Jerry Stiller · Doc Cantrow; Rob Corddry · Mac; Carlos Mencia · Uncle Tito; Scott Wilson · Boo; Danny McBride · Martin
- Genres
- romantic dark comedy; black comedy; romantic comedy
- Themes
- marriage; disillusionment; romance
- Tone and mood
- dark comedy; romantic
- Premise and plot tags
- remake; marriage; honeymoon
- Source material / true-story basis
- The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
- Content notes
- nudity
- Reception
- The film was a box office success but received negative reviews from critics, with a consensus that it was less daring and funny than the Farrelly brothers' previous work.
- Reported review scores
- Rotten Tomatoes · score: 29% · review count: 157; Metacritic · score: 46 · scale: 100 · review count: 30
- Production trivia
- The film was originally announced in 1998 under Interscope Communications.; Barry Sonnenfeld was first attached to direct in 2004 but turned down the offer.; A sex scene was cut from the San Diego Comic-Con preview due to nudity backlash.
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