Heartbreakers (film)

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name = Heartbreakers


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director = Bobby Roth
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starring = Peter Coyote
Nick Mancuso
music = Tangerine Dream
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released = 1984
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country = US
language = English
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"Heartbreakers" is a 1984 drama film starring Peter Coyote and Nick Mancuso. It was written and directed by Bobby Roth.

Plot

The film concerns two friends, Blue (Coyote) and Eli (Mancuso) as they concurrently arrive at crossroads in their lives. Blue is a painter specializing in fetishistic portraits of women, usually selling his images to porn magazines. As the story begins, he is given an opportunity to have his work featured in gallery showing as legitmate art if he can create enough new pieces to fill out a show.

Eli has come to his own milestone, as his father wants him to take over the family's clothing business that has been paying for his playboy lifestyle. Ironically, they make women's undergarments.

"Heartbreakers" is notable as a coming of age story because the main characters are not the usual teenagers of such tales, but men in fact on the cusp of middle age. It could be said to be a precursor to the "rejuvenile" movement two decades later. The film also features Max Gail as a rival of Blue's, Kathryn Harrold as the ex-flame he still would like to rekindle and Carol Wayne as one of his fetish models.

Behind the Scenes

This would be Carol Wayne's final film appearance before she died under mysterious circumstances on vacation in Manzanillo, Mexico.

See also

* Heartbreakers (soundtrack)

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