MMB Movie Club 00: The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Who loves ya, baby? That's right, the Munchie Boys do. This month we did an entire bonus Movie Club entry for all of our audience, not just the Munchies on Patreon who get one of these a month.
And we didn't do just any old movie. We did the anti-rom-com that might just have been the origin of cringe comedy, Elaine May's 1972 masterpiece The Heartbreak Kid, starring Munch alums Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd, along with two different Academy Award nominees for their work in this film, Eddie Albert and Jeannie Berlin. Did those two ever earn their nominations here. Wow. Great film. Come along for a blast.
You can watch this film (which has otherwise evaporated into the ether on account of its distributor shuttering more than two decades ago) on: Archive.org or YouTube.
Music:
Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"
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