Other Titles • Breakin' All the Rules (2004) • The Break Up Handbook • The Sexpert • Untitled Jamie Foxx Comedy
Synopses for Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
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Things are looking bleak for Quincy Watson (Jamie Foxx, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY and BOOTY CALL). His company is firing people left and right and his heartless fiancée Helen (Bianca Lawson) has just taken off for Paris with his best man. What else is there to do but sit around the house in an old bathrobe writing anguished letters to Helen that express just how bad he feels over how tactlessly she broke the news to him? His cousin Evan (Morris Chestnut of CONFIDENCE and HALF PAST DEAD) is a magazine publisher who convinces him to take the letters and turn them into an instructional book about how to scientifically and skillfully break up with someone. When the book hits the bestseller list, Quincy is suddenly regarded as an expert on the subject. Both Evan and Quincy's former boss Philip Gascon (Peter MacNicol of ALLY MACBEAL fame) enlist his help breaking things off with their girlfriends. Quincy even agrees to meet Evan's girlfriend Nicky (the lovely Gabrielle Union of BRING IT ON and DELIVER US FROM EVA) in his place, but Nicky recognizes him from a TV interview about his book and immediately suspects (correctly) foul play. So, she decides to play her own game by introducing herself to Quincy as someone else.
BREAKIN' ALL THE RULES is a head-spinning yarn of mistaken identity that has everyone in the movie in a convoluted tailspin. It's a charming, clever, and complicated tale of love, sex, and romance. This comedy of errors has a lot going for it, including an up-to-the-minute hip-hop and R&B soundtrack with some cool Middle Eastern dance grooves and some old school tunes to boot.
(39 votes)
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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 relationships, asks Quincy to help him break up with his current girlfriend, Nicky (Gabrielle Union). However, when Quincy tries to help, the sultry princess casts her spell and sends his already flailing world into its final spiral.
(34 votes)
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Jamie Foxx proves a winning romantic lead in the surprisingly subtle Breakin' All the Rules. When Quincy (Foxx, Ali, Collateral) gets brutally dumped by his fiancee, he researches the psychology of firing employees to create a break-up guide--a guide to a kinder, gentler break-up. His cousin Evan (Morris Chestnut, The Brothers) is afraid that his girlfriend is going to dump him, so he asks for Quincy's help, setting in motion a web of mistaken identities that snares Evan's girlfriend Nicky (Gabrielle Union, Bring It On), Quincy's boss Philip (a wonderfully squirmy Peter MacNicol), and a blithe gold digger named Rita (Jennifer Esposito, Dracula 2000). Writer/director Daniel Taplitz gives his characters, if not three dimensions, then two and a half--comedy comes out of their personalities instead of lame gags. Add in some unpredictable plot twists, genuine chemistry between Foxx and Union, and the result is genuinely fun. --Bret Fetzer
(33 votes)
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An hysterical comedy about a man who, after being unceremoniously dumped by his fiancée, pens a "how to" book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wanting his male friends to suffer the same fate, he gives them advice on dumping their mates. What ensues is a hilarious comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
(33 votes)
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