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Article: 'HEARTBREAK KID' LACKS HEART

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October 6, 2007
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Nobody expects the Merchant-Ivory approach from the Farrelly Brothers, Bobby and Peter.

The writer-director duo behind "There's Something About Mary" and other raunchy comedies is noted for irresistible comic bad taste.

But the siblings' remake of playwright Neil Simon's 1972 "The Heartbreak Kid" is unaccountably lacking in the playground, gross- out energy that marks their other movies.

This "Heartbreak Kid" contains the obligatory anatomical jokes but one important metaphorical organ is missing -- the heart.

Ben Stiller plays Eddie, a San Francisco businessman who owns a sporting goods store. At 40, Eddie is unmarried and his potty-mouth father (Stiller's real-life dad, Jerry) is ...

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