Heartbreakers

Released 1984
Stars Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure, Max Gail, Carol Wayne, Kathryn Harrold
Directed by Bobby Roth

You can only play the field so long. Then you get stuck in it.You become a person so adept at avoiding commitment that it eventually becomes impossible for you to change your own rules, and so there you are, trapped in your precious freedom. Bobby Roth's "Heartbreakers" is about a group of people like that, a mixed bag of loners that includes a couple of artists, a businessman, a gallery owner, an aerobics instructor, and a model who specializes in telephone sex. During the course of a few weeks, their lives cross in ways that make it particularly hard for each one of them to deny his own unhappiness.

Summary by Roger Ebert
 
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