Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play a mother and daughter con team. As a light comedy, this is a half hour too long. And as a light comedy, Ray Liotta is too angry and too threatening. He doesn't have the light touch to have fun with the material.

Weaver and Hewitt are not the most obvious cons. I don't know if Hewitt has ever told a lie in real life. She doesn't seem to be the type, and that's the problem. The most important contribution from Hewitt seems to be her curves in tiny tiny dresses and what keeps trying to pop out of them.

I have a serious need to compare this to 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'. That one had two all-time comedic masters in Steve Martin and Michael Caine working. This one has two actresses who dabbles in comedies. In that one, it wasn't the cons but the wacky antics that was important. No matter how hard they try, nobody can do physical comedy in the same league.

Gene Hackman plays a gruff tobacco magnate. He's not a terribly funny comedian. Jason Lee plays the bar owner who falls for Hewitt. I can't fault anybody for the attempt, but I just don't see much in the mean-spirited personality to like. Nobody is likable here and I want Jason Lee to run away as fast as possible. At over 2 hours, this is an impossibly long unfunny comedy. If it wasn't for Hewitt's impressive curves, there would be nothing to recommend.

Heartbreakers is a romantic comedy about con artists. Just to ram the point home, magician and con movie veteran Ricky Jay appears.

A mother and daughter team (Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt) make a lucrative living out of Weaver marrying rich men and then getting Hewitt to end up in a compromising position with them leading to a quick divorce settlement.

After conning Ray Liotta and Hewitt thinking of branching out on her own, Weaver finds that the IRS (Anne Bancroft) have taken their saving and demanding more in back taxes.

The two of them head out to Palm Beach to find a big mark for that giant payout and put their conning days behind them. They aim to reel in Gene Hackman a chronic smoker and billionaire that Weaver is desperately trying to seduce. Hewitt falls for a local bar owner but Ray Liotta swindled at the beginning of the film suddenly drops by.

A film like this is framed by its subject, the confidence artist. You see Weaver and Hewitt pulling various cons as they go along, slipping on the floor to get good hotel suites, finding glass on food to get free restaurant meals. However in this movie you kind of guess there is a counter-con going on. Bancroft is not someone who randomly turns up at the beginning of the movie.

As a romantic comedy it is so-so. Weaver looks good for her age and Hewitt wears sexy outfits. The film works better when Weaver tries to grasp dirty ole smoker Hackman and things do not go rather as planned.

However the real show stealer is Liotta. We think he is going to be the hard nosed bad guy but puts on a relaxed comedy turn.

There was a rumor in high school that I had an incredible crush on Jennifer Love Hewitt, presumably based off my love of the movie "Can't Hardly Wait". Well, that rumor was false. But if I had seen this movie in high school (a temporal impossibility),things might have been different.

This film stars Hewitt, alongside Sigourney Weaver, as a pair of black widows who con men into marrying them so they can reap the divorce money. What is not so interesting is the plot (clever, but nothing special). It's the impressive list of guest stars they con along the way: Kevin Nealon, Ray Liotta, Jeffrey Jones, Gene Hackman and Jason Lee.

If the cast doesn't sell you, there are key scenes you won't want to miss: Sigourney Weaver posing as a Russian woman singing the Beatles' "Back in the USSR"... and Ray Liotta hunting fish with a pistol.

If nothing else, the subtle "Chasing Amy" reference probably makes this whole film worth it. (Okay, not true... but I appreciated it.) My only two complaints: Sarah Silverman needed a bigger part (maybe TJ Thyne did, too). And who is the guy who keeps thinking that Sigourney Weaver should be put in sexy roles? That person needs to be strung up in the alley.