The Heartbreak Kid 1972 M

Production still from The Heartbreak Kid 1972 / Director: Elaine May / Image courtesy: Bristol Myers Squibb

Production still from The Heartbreak Kid 1972 / Director: Elaine May / Image courtesy: Bristol Myers Squibb / View full image

When

6.30 pm, Wed 25 Sep 2024 (105 mins)

Where

Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

About

This screening will be introduced by Robert Hughes, Australian Cinémathèque.

Please note: this screening has been moved from its previously advertised date of Wednesday 28 August.

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: Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles
  • Rights: Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Year: 1972
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Colour: Colour
  • Shooting Format: 35mm
  • Screening Format: 35mm