Movie #386 - Heartbreakers

Heartbreakers
2001 - Rated PG-13 - 2 hr 3 min
Director: David Mirkin
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, Anne Bancroft, Jeffrey Jones, Nora Dunn, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifiankais, Shawn Colvin, Michael Hitchcock

Mother-daughter con artists Weaver and Hewitt are pretty well paired in this movie.  While it's not the best of films, the relationship between them has all the right elements. They're slightly competitive, they love each other, they trust each other, but they have way too much in common sometimes.  Shame on Weaver's character for bringing her daughter up to be a con, but I guess it's like they say about that apple and the tree.

There's not much too exciting about this one, save Sigourney Weaver's accent, and the whole Jason Lee as a love interest thing just doesn't make sense in my head.  But it's nice to see at least that Hewitt tries to make it legit by the end!

Movie #366 - Can't Hardly Wait

Can't Hardly Wait
1998 - Rated PG-13 - 1 hr 40 min
Directors: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, Freddy Rodriguez,  Sean Patrick Thomas, Donald Faison, Jaime Pressly, Selma Blair, Jason Segel, Chris Owen

Oh, high school. This movie came out the year before I graduate high school, so the whole party-before-college premise rung true for me at the time.  Jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, and X-filers alike can revel in this movie's accurate rendering of high school in the 90s.  And what a cast... so many great bit parts played by actors who have real careers now!

See if you can spot Selma Blair. Or how about Jason Segel?  Yep, that's him all right!  This was fun to revisit after so much time has passed.  Not only could I still remember my favorite lines, but finding all these "new" faces in the crowd became a game for me. 

Anyway, it's no Oscar winner, nor does it have the kind of original plot that keeps you riveted.  The characters are stereotypes, the acting's okay, but the real joy here is in what it represents for me.  If you didn't graduate high school in the late 90s, this might not strike the same chord for you.