Heartbreakers: Difference between revisions

* [[All for Nothing]]: We spend most of the movie believing that Max and Paige are doing the con just to pay off the IRS but {{spoiler|it turns out Max used her old partner to fool Paige and stop her from going out on her own}}.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Deconstructed beautifully. Max and Paige make their money off this trope, doing their very best to con all men using their sex appeal. Paige's mentality is "we can't make a scumbag do anything a scumbag wouldn't do". But then when it appears even nice guy Jack {{spoiler|cheats on Paige with Max, it turns out she had to drug him because he turned her down}}. And Dean gives Max a speech telling her that although he cheated, he is genuinely sorry because he lost her and wants to try again.

* [[Arbitrarily-Large Bank Account]]

* [[Bilingual Backfire]]: Tensey takes "Olga" to a Russian restaurant where she knows only one word of Russian and is then called upon to sing a traditional Russian song. {{spoiler|She covers up by singing "Back in the USSR" instead.}}

* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Max and Paige switch between all three colours in their various identities; both are brunette as themselves, Max is redhead as "Olga" and blonde as "Angela" while Paige is redhead as "Wendy" and blonde as "Allison".

* [[Chekhov's Gag]]: The statue of the man with the erection.

* [[Christmas Cake]]: Paige subtly implies Max is becoming this as her record for getting men to marry her is three months but the recent con with Dean took four months. It's also likely that Max hasn't actually had sex since she got pregnant with Paige.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Paige's dad pulled a "conceive and leave"

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Max and Paige have different hairstyles for their different identities.

* [[Fan Service]]: Remains Jennifer Love Hewitt's hottest movie.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Max adopts a few pet words in Russian as "Olga" such as "pipishka" (you know what she's talking about).

* [[The Ghost]]: Barbara, Max's mentor who taught her the con. {{spoiler|Subverted when we find out Barbara was actually Gloria Vogel, the IRS woman Max used to fool Paige}}.

* [[Karma Houdini Warranty]]: Max

* [[Likes Older Women]]: A few of Max's husbands.

* [[Mrs. Robinson]]

* [[Noodle Implements]]: The "Trogden Triangle" requires a trumpet and a talking parrot.

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: The end implies {{spoiler|Max and Dean are planning to con Barbara out of the money she stole from Max}}

* [[Rich People]]

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