heartbreakers

Celebrate Valentine's Day with Reductive Reviews by taking a deep dive into the most iconic heartbreak movies of the early aughts. Amy and G discuss (500) Days of Summer (2009), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and Blue Valentine (2010). Weekly watches include The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), When A Stranger Calls Back (1993), Enough Said (2013), and the new favorite Have to Have Sex (2023). This is quite an emotional episode, as one would expect! Special shout out to all currently going through heartbreak,  this episode is dedicated to you! 

Gino opens up about his biggest heartbreak and how he has since turned to soppy love movies when he faces tough times.
Our story takes us back to 17 years ago with a boy who was cool in his school marimba band. At the same time there was a girl who was hot in her school marimba band. Like Romeo and Juliet they came together, although not in Verona, Italy, but at the National Marimba Competition held annually in Boksburg.  A classic love story in the making. . .   

Gino's Hot Heartbreakers:

1. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) - A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career
2. The Notebook (2004) - An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes.
3. P.S. I Love You (2007) - A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
4. Moulin Rouge - A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
5. The Great Gatsby - A writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age.

      6. Catch A Fire - A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving                  around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the                        regime.
      7. The Truman Show - An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a                    reality TV show.
      8. Pearl Harbour - A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story                             follows  two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror               of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
      9. Remember The Titans - The true story of a newly appointed African-American                     coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
   10. Precious - In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate              teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative                      school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.

We hope these 10 titles will help you through those times when you need more than just a tissue.

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Jon Scott worked as a record promotion guy with a lot of great artists, but his most important, and meaningful, relationship was with Tom Petty. (In fact, Jon can be credited for breaking Petty, long after the record company gave up on him.) In his new book, Tom Petty and Me, Scott recounts a life-long friendship with one of the great American songwriters of all time.

To get a copy of Jon's book, visit his website.

We're not sure if anyone other than us remembers "Heartbreakers," so obviously it's right on brand for the pod. It tells the age old story of a mother and daughter who make a living swindling men out of money by pretending to fall in love with them. Along the way they get into a bunch of zany shenanigans. Clearly the pinnacle of Sigourney Weaver's career. We pair it with The Velvet Devil Merlot 2021. It's a solid red. Would recommend. We're also into the starkness of the label.

Metacritic Score: 47/100 (but with a user score of 8.3/10. Yay!)

Movie Sync Notes: We purchased the movie on Amazon Prime Video. We start "Heartbreakers" 9:10 into the pod, and push play on part two 1:15:57  into the pod.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are one of the great rock bands of all time, but they might not have ever achieved the same level of success if not for record promo man Jon Scott. As an early believer in Tom’s talent, Jon put his career on the line to champion the young band in 1977. The rest is history, as Jon writes in his book, “Tom Petty and Me.” I chat with Jon about his 40-year relationship with Tom in this debut episode of season three of KMB.

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I have seen the ripple effect heartbreak has when you don’t heal completely. And yes, you may think you’ve handled that breakup twenty years ago, or you moved on from that job you loved but lost, but have you really lived or did you just learn how to cope, exist and survive it?

Working with me means you’ll never have to merely survive pain. It means you can live even while experiencing something painful. Your life will never have to pause or stop again.

With my knowledge and your will, we can heal your heart in a lasting way, help you find closure in getting over a loss, and get you on track to living life to its fullest.

Marlowe and Eve discuss the underrated con artist classic HEARTBREAKERS (2001) starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta, and Anne Bancroft. We talk about the beauty of getting away with things, con artist duos, and mob movies.

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