Breaking Up

1997
4.7| 1h30m| R| en
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An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and roses, but as they realize they have little in common besides great sex, the romance wanes, and they struggle through a succession of break-ups and reunions as they try to work things out.

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Also starring Abraham Alvarez

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Elswet Salma Hayek is quirky and delightful in this work, but let me ask you a question: With a title like Breaking Up, did you really expect them to work it out? WHO in their right mind would want to be with a man like Crowe!?! All too often, his characters are rude, crude, abusive, and psychotic. It leads me to believe he plays these roles so often because there is something inside him, which identifies with this type of man. Indeed. News reports would tend to corroborate this opinion.The story is dull and uneventful, and the execution is pretty lame. Again, Hayek was great, but she can't do a "couples" movie alone and have it work. Crowe just plain sucks as an actor.This is a crapfest, and as such, rates a NOTHING from...the Fiend :.
Theo Robertson ... Was my initial reaction but BREAKING UP is a bit of a turkey . To all intents and purposes this is an inferior WHEN HARRY MET SALLY for a younger generation . It`s episodic and never feels convincing , but the worst criticism I have is that the two stars never shine on screen . Maybe if Crowe`s character beat up a few people while all Salma`s scenes revolved lying on top of that body builder in the gym it would have been more watchable ?
Stello I like Salma Hayek, I like Russell Crowe.. I had never heard of this movie until I noticed it on the TV guide, but seeing who were starring in it, I was expecting some entertainment.. How wrong was I!! :O It turned out to be really, Really bad! Forced dialogue all through the movie, plus I felt the director had been playing with as many different camera techniques as he could think of - ending up making a big mess of waste. Such disappointment.. The only potential bit was the scene where he was taking a bath, getting a mental image of the bodybuilder type she described on the phone.. But it wasn't funny enough to save the movie.This one's best avoided..
Mickey Knox (some spoilers) Boy and girl together. Girl leaves boy. Girl comes back. Girl and boy make love. Girl breaks up with boy. Boy begs girl to come back. Girl comes back. Boy and girl make love. Boy breaks up with girl. Girl begs boy to come back. Boy comes back. Boy and girl make love. Girl breaks up with boy. Boy asks girl to marry him. Girl accepts. (!!??!!) Boy and girl in front of the minister. Boy faints. Girl breaks up with boy. Forever.This is BREAKING UP. Good points: for the actors, Salma Hayek and Russel Crowe - very convincing in difficult roles. And also the idea of making a movie only with 2 actors. Bad points: the rest. Especially the story, most of the times pathetic and unbelieveble. Vote: 5