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The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
New York Times, October 5, 2007
The Seven-Year Itch, Days After the Wedding
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: October 5, 2007
If you haven’t seen “The Heartbreak Kid,” Elaine May’s 1972 adaptation of a short story by Bruce Jay Friedman (with a screenplay by Neil Simon), you’re missing a minor, if somewhat dated, classic, a study in Jewish male sexual anxiety that fits comfortably (which is to say nervously and neurotically) alongside “Portnoy’s Complaint” and the early films of Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky.
If you haven’t seen “The Heartbreak Kid,” Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s new update of that earlier picture, I’m jealous."
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Leave this one on the shelf. A few funny moments cannot carry this film.
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