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In Heartbreakers two men in their thirties, artist Arthur Blue (Peter Coyote)j and businessman Eli Kahn (Nick Mancuso), best friends since childhood, find their relationship severely tested when each is suddenly caught up in his respective struggle for love and success.
With Coyote playing a contemporary L.A. painter and Mancuso playing a well-dressed, very straight businessman who inherits his father’s business, the two maintain their friendship despite their disparate lifestyles. Each sees in the other the very thing that they themselves seem to lack—Blue sees Eli as successful at love and money, and Eli sees Blue as creative, unique and spontaneous. Each man’s search for security dominates their friendship, as they compete for love and professional recognition.
This bright and artful film looks beneath the canvas of contemporary L.A. life. It sketches in the detail of the seldom seen side of downtown L.A. artists (and you thought only New York has lofts) and at the same time tells a compelling story of friendship that comes full circle.