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I always hated Charles Grodin

posted 13 years ago by deliaw1946
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...because of this movie. I think the reason he was so good is that he was actually the kind of person who would actually do this! Marry a young, sweet, not-to-bright girl then just go after another girl, lie and cruelly dump the first one. At the time this movie came out, there was quite a bit of discussion. Message boards, IMDB etc. not around in 70's but still people seemed to agree that Lila turned out to be a pill (which turned up right away) Lenny was cruel in the way he handled getting out of the marriage. Charles Groden always seemed like he was really like that.

[–] pacificboy 12 years ago

Yeah, I understand that it was Anthony Hopkins' experience as a serial killer that made him so effective in The Silence of the Lambs. Good gravy, don't go around admitting that you can't separate fact from fiction.

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[–] balboa76 12 years ago

Beautifully said pacificboy, the boards for the Heartbreak Kid are so full of delusional morons, the film is a comedy but the psychos here continue to think that Leonard actually wanted to go back to his ugly, fat, unhygienic, gross, low class, disaster of a wife at the end of the film lol What film where they watching? After he has sex for the first time with her, he just sets in a chair across from the bed, and stairs at her, and you know exactly what he's thinking, what the hell did I just do to myself, my life and my future! how in the hell could I have married her, if I only had the chance to have sex with her before the marriage I would have just put on my pants and ran away as fast as I could into the dark night, now am married and trapped to this nightmare of a wife.

Pacificboy read the Heartbreat Kid topics here, am sure you'll get a lot of laughs when you hear the delusional opinions by the psychos here. It's like a sick cult of people who love to look so deep into things that don't exist in reality, like the idiot OP who thought Grodin was like the fictional character he's was playing in the film lol.

I am a huge fan of the film so I come on these boards from time to time, but for the life of me I really don't understand how an educated individual can watch a comedy like The Heartbreak Kid and come away with all these crazy over the top opinions that take a comedy film and turn it into serious piece of drama.

Bottom line, ugly Jewish guys, with average income, do not hook up with beautiful tall blond upper class wasp college girls on their honeymoons lol and then get to upgrade and trade in the Jewish wife and get a second chance at life, pure science fiction and that's what makes The Heartbreak Kid a fantastic classic comedy.

[–] rogerscorpion 12 years ago

First off---this is a 1970's Jewish New Yorker film.

The actors were ACTING! If you thought Grodin was actually like this---I'm sure he thanks you.

The Ben Stiller remake was made by Irish guys---the Farrelys. They had no feel for Jewish humor & Ben Stiller didn't stop them. Maybe he's been around California too long. But, then again, he's half Irish.

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[–] jgroub 10 years ago

Heh, heh, touche. However, sometimes, just sometimes, the actor and the character do become one. I have always despised Molly Ringwald, because to me, deep down, she really is the stuck-up b!tch she plays in The Breakfast Club.

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