Episode #48: The Heartbreak Kid (with Carrie Courogen)

 

Welcome back to the pod Carrie Courogen, author of Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius out now from St. Martin’s Press.

Carrie joins us to discuss The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Elaine May’s honeymoon horror film co-starring her daughter Jeannie Berlin and Charles Grodin as doomed newlyweds, and Cybill Shepherd as the coed for whom Grodin’s Lenny quite literally risks it all.


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