The film follows Max and Page Conners, a mother and daughter con artist team as they try to seduce a wealthy man and take his money. The con is a success but when the two are about to run away, problems starts raising.
After a dreadful first half, the film steadies itself once the plot mechanics start paying off; still, the end result is more exhausting than entertaining.
Director David Mirkin, whose Romy and Michele's High School Reunion was similarly afflicted, never gets the timing right and allows the story to drag with little internal logic.
EmanuelLevy.Com
December 07, 2006
The only contribution--and it's a dubious one--that Mirkin makes in his trifle of a comedy is to feminize the perennially male profession of con artists with a mother-daughter team, played by the regal Sigourney Weaver and sexy Jennifer Love Hewitt.
