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** Ultimately ends up being played straight by Page. And technically [[spoiler: Max with Dean, though they don't make things official until he knows about the con]].
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Discussed by Max, since she and Paige give off this contrast. Paige thinks she'll be fine on her own, but Max reminds her that she's only played the easy role of the Whore - since a brief seduction is easy - while getting someone to marry you is trickier.
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** Paige for Jack. Initially she's ''tsuntsun'' as he keeps bugging her, then she pretends to bring out a ''deredere'' side and [[spoiler: then she's no longer pretending]].
* {{Tsundere}}:
** Paige for Jack. Initially she's ''tsuntsun'' as he keeps bugging her, then she pretends to bring out a ''deredere'' side and [[spoiler: then she's no longer pretending]].
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* BitchAlert: The TropeNamer, courtesy of this line:the below line. She's referring to Ms Madress, Tensy's housekeeper.
* BrickJoke: A twofer in the one gag. When looking at potential Palm Beach husbands, the second option is a playboy entertaining several girls on a yacht - Max implying they'd likely have to have a fivesome with him. Later when Paige meets Jack with his telescope, she assumes he's using it to spy on people on boats (when he's stargazing). After Paige leaves he goes back to his telescope - and we can now see a yacht in the distance - where he exclaims "is that ''five'' people!"
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* {{Fanservice}}: Remains Jennifer Love Hewitt's hottest movie (most telling critical comment: "Wonderful performance by Hewitt's breasts"). Sigourney Weaver's no slouch in this department either - getting a LingerieScene and several very flattering dresses.
* TheHecateSisters: Paige is the Maiden, Max is the Matron and [[spoiler: Barbara]] is the Crone.
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* ChekhovsGag: The statue of the man with the erection.
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* ChekhovsGag: The statue of the man with the erection. Tensey draws special attention to him having the penis repaired. [[spoiler: He hits his head off the penis and it dies]].
* OhCrap: Max has a small one when she accidentally orders steak tartar in Russian. Has an even bigger one when Dean shows up at the hotel to win her back.
* SensualSlavs: Invoked by Max, when she poses as a sultry Russian called Olga.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Max runs into Dean again he reaches into his coat pocket seemingly to whip out a gun...instead it's an engagement ring.
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* FootFocus: Max invokes this, having her shoe fall off at the bar and getting a man to help her put it back on.
* FrenchMaidOutfit: Invoked by Paige when she poses as 'Allison' - a potential maid for Tensey. But she gives Allison an English accent rather than French, presumably to avoid being too obvious.
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Dean. When Max asks if he can help them move the body, he responds "I'm from Jersey, aren't I?"
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty:MaxMax's runs out when [[spoiler: her old partner Barbara cons her out of every penny ''she'' ever stole]].
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* FakeNationality: Max pretends to be Russian and Paige pretends to be English. HilarityEnsues when Tensey takes Max to a Russian restaurant.
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* FakeNationality: {{Fauxreigner}}: Max pretends to be Russian and Paige pretends to be English. HilarityEnsues when Tensey takes Max to a Russian restaurant.
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* ChristmasCake: 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.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted as Max is [[spoiler: revealed to have drugged Jack and got him into bed so Paige can get money from a divorce. Dean reacts with disgust and Paige nearly strangles Max when she finds out]].
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted as Max is [[spoiler: revealed to have drugged Jack and got him into bed so Paige can get money from a divorce. Dean reacts with disgust and Paige nearly strangles Max when she finds out]].out, although she still more or less gets off scot-free]].
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* ChekhovsGunman: Max makes several references to her old partner Barbara. [[spoiler: Turns out Barbara was actually 'Gloria Vogel', the supposed IRS agent - actually part of a scam to stop Paige going out on her own. And she ends up conning ''them'' out of their money]].
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* FourthDateMarriage: Paige and Jack.
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* FourthDateMarriage: Paige and Jack. This also seems to be the raison d'etre for the whole con - since Max claims her record is three months.
* HypocriticalHumour: Dean says to Max, "if you're gonna be my wife then you're gonna lead a respectable life...chopping cars".
** A straighter example in the mother of a billionaire Paige considers conning.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Invoked by Max. A) because they're easier to seduce and B) it puts them off actually sleeping with them and risking pregnancy. As Max puts it "Cute is dangerous. Cute leads to feelings, which leads to screwing, which leads to screwed". Of course Max still remarks that "Dean was kind of cute" [[spoiler: and they do end up together]].
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''Heartbreakers'' is a 2001 romantic comedy/caper film directed by David Mirkin and starring Creator/SigourneyWeaver, JenniferLoveHewitt, Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt, Ray Liotta, Gene Hackman, and Creator/JasonLee.
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* BilingualBackfire: 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 [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum "Back in the USSR" USSR"]] instead.]]]]
* BitchAlert: The Trope Namer, courtesy of this line:
-->'''MAX''': "We have a bitch alert."
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* FootFocus: Max when she's trying to seduce a man in a bar.
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* TheOneThatGotAway: Dean decides to go after Max because he realizes she's the first woman that ever left ''him'', rather than vice versa.
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* AssholeVictim: Max and Page's cons are predicated on the mark wilfully committing adultery; as Page notes, "we can't make a scumbag do anything a scumbag wouldn't do". Also, they regularly target marks who deal in rather shady types of business. as it makes them agreeing to out-of-court settlements much easier (as bringing the divorce proceedings in front of a judge might leave them open for criminal proceedings).
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: The end implies [[spoiler: Max and Dean are planning to con Barbara out of the money she stole from Max]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: The end implies [[spoiler: Max and Dean are planning to con Barbara out of the money she stole from Max]]Max]].
* ProductPlacement: RogerEbert quipped that Jennifer Love Hewitt's {{Fanservice}}-y appearance seemed as much a walking advertisement for the Wonderbra as anything else.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dean delivers several to Max when he realizes just how unscrupulous she is.
* ProductPlacement: RogerEbert quipped that Jennifer Love Hewitt's {{Fanservice}}-y appearance seemed as much a walking advertisement for the Wonderbra as anything else.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dean delivers several to Max when he realizes just how unscrupulous she is.
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* HeelRealization: Max when she realizes how she's ruining her daughter's life.
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** And then it turns out he ''did'' have a gun in his trousers.
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* CruelMercy: When Dean discovers Max and Page's plan he threatens to kill them, only for Max to point out his gun is empty. He then says he'll have them thrown in jail, and says "I don't have to kill you to kill you".
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Max runs into Dean again he reaches into his coat pocket seemingly to whip out a gun...instead it's an engagement ring.
* BecomingTheMask: Paige intends to con Jack out of $3 million but then goes and falls in love with him.
* BecomingTheMask: Paige intends to con Jack out of $3 million but then goes and falls in love with him.
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--> "Cute is dangerous. Cute leads to feelings which leads to screwing. Which leads to screwed"
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* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler: The last we see of Paige and Jack is her giving him back his bar and confessing her real name]]. It's left ambiguous whether or not she tells him the full truth or if their relationship will endure.
* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler: The last we see of Paige and Jack is her giving him back his bar and confessing her real name]]. It's left ambiguous whether or not she tells him the full truth or if their relationship will endure.
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* PairTheSpares: Max and Dean.
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* {{Stripperiffic}}: The clothes Paige wears in the workplace are hardly appropriate. [[InvokedTrope Which is exactly what she's counting on]].
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* {{Tsundere}}: Paige for Jack. Initially she's ''tsuntsun'' as he keeps bugging her, then she pretends to bring out a ''deredere'' side and [[spoiler: then she's no longer pretending]].
** Dean is Type B for Max. Initially he's madly in love with her, then hates her for conning him but still wants her.
** Dean is Type B for Max. Initially he's madly in love with her, then hates her for conning him but still wants her.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Max, although quite tame by the rest of the examples of this trope. She sincerely doesn't want her daughter's heart to be broken. However, she will con and lie to her daughter to achieve this. But near the end, [[spoiler:when she sees that her daughter truly was in love with their last con, the con that the Smother drugged, she comes clean, and lets her daughter live her life.]]
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The plot follows Max and Paige Conners (Weaver and Hewitt respectively), a pair of mother and daughter con women. Max marries rich men and then quickly sets them up to cheat on her with Paige and then claims most of their money in a divorce settlement. When the movie starts Paige wants to break away from her mother and start conning on her own but the IRS has just seized all their money so the two decide to pull off one big con on Palm Beach. Max poses as a Russian woman to snag the billionaire William B Tensey (Hackman) in hopes of paying off the IRS and setting Paige up for conning on her own. Meanwhile Liotta plays Dean, the last man the women conned, who wants a second chance with Max and stumbles across their con.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* AbusiveParent: Max isn't exactly Joan Crawford but...
* AllForNothing: 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]].
* AllMenArePerverts: 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.
* AllThereInTheScript: Max's name is never mentioned once in the whole movie.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: "Olga's" accent is not even close to being authentic but it just needs to sound convincing enough to fool Tensey. Ditto for Paige's "English" accent as Allison.
* BilingualBackfire: 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.]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: 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".
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Dean at the start although it's more caught with a woman stuck on your pants.
* ChainedToABed: Dean
* ChekhovsGag: The statue of the man with the erection.
* ChristmasCake: 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.
* DeathAsComedy
* DisappearedDad: Paige's dad pulled a "conceive and leave"
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted as Max is [[spoiler: revealed to have drugged Jack and got him into bed so Paige can get money from a divorce. Dean reacts with disgust and Paige nearly strangles Max when she finds out]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Max and Paige have different hairstyles for their different identities.
* FanService: Remains Jennifer Love Hewitt's hottest movie.
* FakeNationality: Max pretends to be Russian and Paige pretends to be English.
* FootFocus: Max when she's trying to seduce a man in a bar.
* FourthDateMarriage: Paige and Jack.
* GagPenis: Dean is implied to be VERY well endowed.
* GetRichQuickScheme: The con at Palm Beach.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Max adopts a few pet words in Russian as "Olga" such as "pipishka" (you know what she's talking about).
* TheGhost: 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]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Paige
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Max
* LikesOlderWomen: A few of Max's husbands.
* MeaningfulName: Max and Paige's last name is '''Conners'''.
* MrsRobinson
* NoodleImplements: The "Trogden Triangle" requires a trumpet and a talking parrot.
* OutWithABang
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The end implies [[spoiler: Max and Dean are planning to con Barbara out of the money she stole from Max]]
* RichPeople
* SassyBlackWoman: One of the hotel maids.
* ShakingHerHairLoose: When Paige/Wendy is revealed to be Max's daughter she pulls off her red wig and shakes her natural brown hair loose.
* ShesGotLegs: Both of them.
* StacysMom: Max tries to invoke this with Jack.
* StrawFeminist: Max believes all men are scumbags who can't commit to one woman. [[spoiler: Until she meets Jack that is]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists: When Dean discovers what the two are up to he says, "do you have any idea how much therapy you people need!"
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Max we're looking at you
* WeddingDay: Two of them though implied there has been more.
* WigDressAccent: Max as "Olga" and Paige as "Allison".
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The plot follows Max and Paige Conners (Weaver and Hewitt respectively), a pair of mother and daughter con women. Max marries rich men and then quickly sets them up to cheat on her with Paige and then claims most of their money in a divorce settlement. When the movie starts Paige wants to break away from her mother and start conning on her own but the IRS has just seized all their money so the two decide to pull off one big con on Palm Beach. Max poses as a Russian woman to snag the billionaire William B Tensey (Hackman) in hopes of paying off the IRS and setting Paige up for conning on her own. Meanwhile Liotta plays Dean, the last man the women conned, who wants a second chance with Max and stumbles across their con.
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* AbusiveParent: Max isn't exactly Joan Crawford but...
* AllForNothing: 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]].
* AllMenArePerverts: 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.
* AllThereInTheScript: Max's name is never mentioned once in the whole movie.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: "Olga's" accent is not even close to being authentic but it just needs to sound convincing enough to fool Tensey. Ditto for Paige's "English" accent as Allison.
* BilingualBackfire: 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.]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: 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".
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Dean at the start although it's more caught with a woman stuck on your pants.
* ChainedToABed: Dean
* ChekhovsGag: The statue of the man with the erection.
* ChristmasCake: 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.
* DeathAsComedy
* DisappearedDad: Paige's dad pulled a "conceive and leave"
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted as Max is [[spoiler: revealed to have drugged Jack and got him into bed so Paige can get money from a divorce. Dean reacts with disgust and Paige nearly strangles Max when she finds out]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Max and Paige have different hairstyles for their different identities.
* FanService: Remains Jennifer Love Hewitt's hottest movie.
* FakeNationality: Max pretends to be Russian and Paige pretends to be English.
* FootFocus: Max when she's trying to seduce a man in a bar.
* FourthDateMarriage: Paige and Jack.
* GagPenis: Dean is implied to be VERY well endowed.
* GetRichQuickScheme: The con at Palm Beach.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Max adopts a few pet words in Russian as "Olga" such as "pipishka" (you know what she's talking about).
* TheGhost: 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]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Paige
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Max
* LikesOlderWomen: A few of Max's husbands.
* MeaningfulName: Max and Paige's last name is '''Conners'''.
* MrsRobinson
* NoodleImplements: The "Trogden Triangle" requires a trumpet and a talking parrot.
* OutWithABang
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The end implies [[spoiler: Max and Dean are planning to con Barbara out of the money she stole from Max]]
* RichPeople
* SassyBlackWoman: One of the hotel maids.
* ShakingHerHairLoose: When Paige/Wendy is revealed to be Max's daughter she pulls off her red wig and shakes her natural brown hair loose.
* ShesGotLegs: Both of them.
* StacysMom: Max tries to invoke this with Jack.
* StrawFeminist: Max believes all men are scumbags who can't commit to one woman. [[spoiler: Until she meets Jack that is]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists: When Dean discovers what the two are up to he says, "do you have any idea how much therapy you people need!"
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Max we're looking at you
* WeddingDay: Two of them though implied there has been more.
* WigDressAccent: Max as "Olga" and Paige as "Allison".
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