Genre: Romance, Comedy, Buddies, Mistaken Identity, Marriage, Love, Satire, Love Triangle
Tagline: When it comes to getting dumped... He wrote the book.
Plot: With all the hustle and bustle of the magazine publishing world in a city like Los Angeles, relationships can be a bit trying, and ending them has never been an easy task. When Quincy (Jamie Foxx) is handed his walking papers from his fiancée Helen (Bianca Lawson) at their engagement party he is devastated. His personal life is now in the toilet and his professional life isn’t far behind. His boss Phillip (Peter MacNicol) has summoned Quincy to fire 15% of the staff because he’s too afraid to do it himself. Discovering that he doesn’t have the stomach to fire all the people on the list, he quits the company.Wallowing in his misery, Quincy attempts to exorcise his demons and writes a heartfelt letter to his girlfriend, detailing the physiological ramifications her abrupt breakup has had on him. His heartache and rage from being dumped fuses with his newfound knowledge on termination, and his letter mutates into a manual on the proper way to terminate a relationship. Thus, “The Breakup Handbook” is born. His book becomes a nationwide bestseller, and even his old boss seeks out Quincy for advice on ending his relationship with his money-hungry barracuda of a girlfriend, Rita (Jennifer Esposito). Meanwhile, Quincy’s cousin Evan (Morris Chestnut), famous for short-lived
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 "Breakin' All the Rules" is not a comic masterpiece, but it's entertaining and efficient, and provides a showcase for its stars. It's on the level of a good sitcom.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
...breaks almost none as it recycles jumped-to conclusions and mistaken-identity twists from romantic comedies dating back to the Pleistocene Age of Doris and Rock.  --Glenn Lovell (San Jose Mercury News)
A dull, tedious sitcom in need of a network, being seriously unfunny is the least of this film’s sins. D--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
‘Breakin’ All the Rules’ is far too often a leaden and unconvincing romantic comedy with a lackluster lead performance by Jaime Foxx; effectively canceling out the solid work by Gabrielle Union and the few moments when the film shows some ingenuity.  --Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com)
"Breakin' All the Rules" is not entirely bereft of chuckles, though it misses one comic opportunity after another (the best jokes are in the trailer). --Jonathan Foreman (New York Post)
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| Breakin' All the Rules breaks none of the rules of the genre, and seems blissfully unaware of its own banality. Either that, or director Daniel Taplitz simply didn't care. --Dustin Putman (The Movie Insider)
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