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Abraham Alvarez, Russell Crowe, Salma Hayek

Steve (Russell Crowe) and Monica (Salma Hayek) make a dreadful couple. Something about Monica, a teacher, turns Steve, a photographer, into an insensitive jerk. Steve's behavior makes Monica clingy an...( read more  read more... )d hysterical. When the romantic "dramedy" Breaking Up opens, Steve and Monica are doing just that--breaking up. But every time they break up, one of them breaks down and calls the other to suggest, "Let's get together for dinner and talk." By now, they're so hot for each other that they tumble right into bed. As Monica puts it, "As the relationship has deteriorated, we f*** like monkeys!" Breaking Up is a very real portrait of an addictive love affair that strikes a decidedly familiar chord. How many of us have been through unhealthy relationships like this one? Crowe and Hayek are so credible that the movie is most compelling to watch. Their good times are achingly sweet. (When Crowe proposes marriage to Hayek in the back of a taxi, the heart of every female viewer is guaranteed to melt.) But can the good times make up for the bad? Using a mixture of filming techniques--montages, monologues, on-street interviews, plus straight-out dramatic scenes--director Robert Greenwald (The Burning Bed), and Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter Michael Cristofer (The Shadow Box), create a provocative, intimate, and erotic anatomy of the quintessential destructive relationship. --Laura Mirsky

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R, 89 min.

Directed by: Robert Greenwald

Release Date: October 17, 1997

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DVD Release Date: June 1, 2004

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  • ladyp1964
    September 16, 2007
    ladyp1964
    I was surprised this was shown in the middle of the afternoon given the amount of sex innuendos..... this country is usually quite particular on that account.
  • ileo
    April 12, 2007
    ileo
    THIS IS ONE OF MY HIGHLY FAVORED MOVIES!!
    LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
  • SocialNetwork
    December 13, 2008
    SocialNetwork
    Funny, real life kind of funny, and extremely emotional. A process virtually eveyone can relate to...ending wth the thought..."what if...".
  • Soundsofmadness
    October 17, 2008
    Soundsofmadness
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • cool3alatool87
    October 6, 2008
    cool3alatool87
    i didn't get a thing!!!
  • rajivbh70
    March 11, 2008
    rajivbh70
    yeah this movie is good i like salma hayek
  • tpb001
    November 10, 2007
    tpb001
    It doesen't help that Crowe is in it. It still sucks.
  • iamsomisty
    September 12, 2007
    iamsomisty
    go to maximum russell crowe & check out some of the stills from this movie, better yet, i will
  • cajunpalomino
    August 15, 2007
    cajunpalomino
    As gorgeous as Salma is, I couldn't watch much more than 20 minutes of this sleeper...
  • help4u
    July 21, 2007
    help4u
    a very good with two great starr

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