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The Heartbreak Kid
Comedy, Romance
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants to be with Kelly instead.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy painfully awkward relationship comedy about vanity, entitlement, and the humiliating gap between romantic fantasy and ordinary commitment.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, bleak
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- marriage, selfishness, romantic idealization, deception
- Setting
- contemporary early 1970s, Miami Beach hotels and domestic spaces