Lenny Cantrow is on his honeymoon and completely in love… just not with his wife. It doesn’t take long for Lenny (Charles Grodin) to regret his matrimony to Lila (Jeannie Berlin), a sweet yet unsophisticated woman, whose quirks go from cute to unbearable in their first few days of marriage. It’s love at first slight when beautiful and self-assured Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) confronts Lenny on the beach, and the two begin a whirlwind flirtation in the Miami heat. Find out whether Lenny will ditch the wife, get the girl, impress the father, and find some decency in the Neil Simon-scripted, Elaine May-directed The Heartbreak Kid.
“Elaine May’s deft direction catches all the possibilities of young romance and its tribulations in light strokes and cleverly accents characterization of the various principals.” – Variety
“Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid was directed with a sure feeling for how comedy can edge over into satire and then tragedy.” – Roger Ebert
“A first-class American comedy, as startling in its way as was The Graduate.” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times
