The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
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)...
Rating
3.5 out of 5 Stars
- Director: Elaine May
- Producer: Edgar J. Scherick
- Screenwriter: Neil Simon
- Stars: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Audra Lindley, Eddie Albert
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Year of Release: 1972
- Released on Video: 10/01/1980
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