 heartbreakers is a 2001 caper-romantic comedy film directed by david mirkin. it stars sigourney weaver, jennifer love hewitt, ray liotta, jason lee, and gene hackman. weaver was nominated for a golden satellite award for her performance in the film. the plot revolves around an elaborate con set up by a mother-daughter team to swindle wealthy men out of their money, and what happens during their "last" con together. this film is written by robert dunn, paul guay and stephen mazur. it was the third collaboration by guay and mazur, whose previous comedies were the little rascals and liar liar. ==plot== max (sigourney weaver) and page conners (jennifer love hewitt) are a mother-daughter con artist team. when the film opens, the conners are settling a con on dean cumanno (ray liotta), an auto-body shop owner and small-time crook. the con, which the conners have played a number of times before on other men, involves max marrying dean, passing out on their wedding night to avoid actually consummating the marriage, and then page (posing as dean's secretary) luring dean into a compromising position to justify max's immediate divorce and hefty settlement. the con is a success. page declares that she wants to go solo. max initially relents, but when they visit the bank to split their earnings, they are confronted by an irs agent (anne bancroft) who declares that they owe the government a considerable sum on top of the rest of their savings, which have already been seized. page reluctantly agrees to work together with max on one last con in palm beach (the con would result in enough money to pay off the i.r.s. and set up page to work on her own). for their target, they choose widower william b. tensy (gene hackman), a tobacco baron who is addicted to his own product. complicating matters is beachfront bartender jack (jason lee), whom page meets without her mother's knowledge while attempting to g
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