Breakin' All the Rules (SE) / Two Can Play that Game 2-Pack (2-DVD)

Starring: Jamie Foxx & Jennifer Esposito Director: Daniel Taplitz  Rated:

DVD Features:

Disc 1: BREAKIN' ALL THE RULES

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen

Audio:

• Subtitles - English - Closed Captioning

Additional Release Material:

• Audio Commentary - 1. Cast and crew
• Featurette - 1. "Hoi Polloi" - The Three Stooges
• Interview - 1. Quincy Watson - Character
• Making Of - 1. "The Break-up Handbook"
• Outtakes

Disc 2: TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME

Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

• Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
• Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
• Subtitles - English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai - Optional

Additional Release Material:

• Audio Commentary - 1. Mark Brown - Director
• Trailers
• Featurette - 1. HOW TO SURVIVE THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES (18 mins)
                   2. FIRST TIME AT BAT - Making Of (11 mins)
                   3. MAKES HER MOVE (8 mins) - Vivica A. Fox - Star
• Music Video - 1. Katie Wyatt featuring Avant - "Nothing in This World"

Interactive Features:

• Interactive Menus
• Scene Selection

Text/Photo Galleries:

• Filmographies

Product Description:

BREAKIN' ALL THE RULES: 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.

TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME: Shanté (Vivica A. Fox), a glamorous advertising executive, is a heroine to all her girlfriends. She's the one they turn to for relationship advice--Shanté seems to have all the answers when it comes to romance and understanding men. So when she catches her boyfriend Keith (Morris Chestnut) seeing another girl, Shanté will stop at nothing to win back his affections and her own pride. She decides to implement a 10-day plan to eliminate her competition and get her man to mend his cheating ways. As she puts her plan into action, she speaks directly to the camera, very analytically talking us through every trick in the relationship bag. Shanté will "accidentally" run into Keith with a gorgeous Other Man; she'll ignore his phone calls; she'll even seduce him and then cruelly walk out before the deed is done.

Problem is, Keith doesn't fall for Shanté's games, and instead he gives her a taste of her own medicine. His friend Tony (Anthony Anderson), who is almost as strategic and savvy as Shanté, is advising Keith behind the scenes. This self-conscious tale of conniving, manipulative modern love hearkens back to the film director Mark Brown wrote in 1997, HOW TO BE A PLAYER.

Plot Keywords:

Comedy | Comedy (General) | Friends | Friendships | Love | Love Affairs | Relationships | Romantic Comedy

Cast and Crew: