the breakerupperers: no use of mirth control

Gotcha tix for THE BREAKERUPPERERS, Bro?

You better be quick to see the quirky Kiwi comedy, THE BREAKERUPPERERS. Perhaps the merriest movie you’ll see this month, heh?

WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND STARRING: JACKIE VAN BEEK MADELEINE SAMI , THE BREAKERUPPERERS is about a couple of girls who, fifteen years ago, discovered they were being two-timed by the same man. Bitter and cynical they became fast friends and formed The BreakerUpperers, a small-time business breaking up couples for cash.

Now they’re in their late-thirties and business is booming. They’re a platonic, codependent couple who keep their cynicism alive by not getting emotionally involved with anybody else.

Who said breaking up is hard to do? It’s a hoot.

Some of the pair’s elaborate plans to rent asunder romance border on the absurd. Strike that. They are absurd, pregnant with implausibility due to a lack of mirth control.

THE BREAKERUPPERERS is an unabashedly renegade rom com that trashes the traditional boy meets girl, girl loses boy, and the happily ever after heavily heaped upon by contemporary forces of gender equality and diversity.

The humour has a controlled scatter gun approach, with a script and structure firmly in place but with a playful improvisational feel that adds to the merriment.

Outlandish, outrageous and out there, THE BREAKERUPPERERS has all the old zeal of New Zealand comedy, full of break up laughter and a dash of genuine pathos.

Brakes off the belly laughs, no need to break out the nuts, it’s already chock full, THE BREAKERUPPERERS is the merriest movie in the land.