The Heartbreak Kid 1972 M
When
6.30pm, Wed 28 Aug 2024 (105 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
This screening will be introduced by Rob Hughes, Australian Cinémathèque. The Heartbreak Kid will screen from an imported 35mm print.
The Heartbreak Kid is a rarely-screened masterpiece from comedy legend Elaine May. It is a merciless portrait of egotistical salesman Lenny (Charles Grodin), who falls for the young Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) while on honeymoon with his new wife Lila (Jeannie Berlin, in an Academy Award-nominated performance). Working from a Neil Simon script, May delivers a hilariously vicious dismantling of male ego, turning the screws endlessly on the deluded Lenny, in this squirm-inducing classic of American cinema.
M | Medium Level Coarse Language, Sex Scenes
Production Credits
- Director: Elaine May
- Script: Neil Simon
- Based on: the short story ‘A Change of Plan’ by Bruce Jay Friedman
- Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
- Editor: John Carter
- Cast: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert
- Print Source: British Film Institute, London
- Rights: Bristol Myers Squibb
- Year: 1972
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 35mm