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4/26/2019

The Breaker Upperers (2019)

Best friends run a business that gets people out of relationships for them. The service can be just a quick "she doesn't want to be with you any more" phone call or a more elaborate charade involving costumes. Great premise.

But it's got this weird '80s vibe of silly situations that rarely go far enough, which makes for a pretty limp movie. Also, they wasted the brilliantly funny Celia Pacquola in a sad-sack role -- I didn't even recognize her at first, mistaking her for Kelly MacDonald.

C+

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