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Heartbreak Hospital (2002)


HEARTBREAK HOSPITAL
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CAST & CREW
Chelsea Altman, Demian Bichir, Patricia Clarkson
Directed by Rudolph Gerber
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SYNOPSIS
Based on a mystery novel by Henry Slesar, HEARTBREAK HOSPITAL celebrates, sends-up, and otherwise delves into the obsessive weirdness of daytime television. more...

MPAA RATING
Not Rated

RUNTIME
1 hour, 31 minutes

RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 6, 2002

RELEASE COMPANY
Seventh Art Releasing

GENRE
Comedies, Relationships, Based On A Novel

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 RATING: ROTTEN  READING: 14%
(FRESH = 60% or Greater)
  Reviews counted: 14
Fresh: 2  Rotten: 12
Average Rating: 4.5/10
  
( Showing 1-14 of 14 Tomatometer Reviews, sorted z-a )
  "The director, with his fake backdrops and stately pacing, never settles on a consistent tone."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY

  "The film's tone and pacing are off almost from the get-go."
-- Jean Oppenheimer, NEW TIMES

80/100  "A deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of post, pre, and extant stardom."
-- Jon Lap, APOLLO GUIDE

C  "The leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting."
-- Edward Havens, FILMJERK.COM

C-  "This derivative flick cops too much from much-better films like Tootsie, Nurse Betty and Soapdish."
-- E! ONLINE

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4/10  "You've already seen Heartbreak if you've watched the far superior Nurse Betty or Sunset Boulevard. Even the unwatchable Soapdish is more original."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH

2/4  "Unfortunately, Heartbreak Hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit."
-- Frank Ochieng, THEWORLDJOURNAL.COM

  "Desperately unfunny when it tries to makes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seats."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER

2/5  "Dodgy mixture of cutesy romance, dark satire and murder mystery."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE

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ROTTEN 20%
  "Sluggish, tonally uneven."
-- Laura Rothstein, VILLAGE VOICE

2.5/4  "It's quite diverting nonsense."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST

  "Other than a mildly engaging central romance, Hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

1/5  "An excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

2/5  "A dreary indulgence."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES

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