Heartbreak Hospital

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Heartbreak Hospital

2002

1h 31m

Romance

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

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50+ Ratings

A talented but struggling actress (Chelsea Altman) lands a role on a soap opera, but a murderer strikes down one of its stars.

David Hunter

The Hollywood Reporter

09/17/2002

Other than a mildly engaging central romance, Hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst.

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Manohla Dargis

Los Angeles Times

09/12/2002

2/5

A dreary indulgence.

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Lou Lumenick

New York Post

09/09/2002

2.5/4

It's quite diverting nonsense.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

08/22/2005

3/5

Apollo Guide

05/13/2005

80/100

Edward Havens

FilmJerk.com

12/10/2002

C

The leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting.

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06/18/2008

Tries to combine romantic comedy, soap-opera parody and murder mystery, but the disparate elements never gel, and the film, about homicide at a daytime television serial, bounces around with no clue of how to reconcile or intertwine its genre conventions.

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Synopsis

A talented but struggling actress (Chelsea Altman) lands a role on a soap opera, but a murderer strikes down one of its stars.

Director: Ruedi Gerber
Producer: Ram Bergman, Lemore Syvan, Ruedi Gerber, Dana Lustig
Screenwriter: Ruedi Gerber, Henry Slesar
Production Co: Goldheart Pictures, ZAS Film, Bergman Lustig Productions
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 6, 2002, Original
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.5K
Runtime: 1h 31m