 Heartbreakers , Mirkin 's second film as a feature director , was released in 2001 . Mirkin rejected the project three times because he disliked the script . While he liked the idea of a mother and daughter con @-@ woman team , he found the writing " really broad , " and " it had no emotion in it . " Eventually , Mirkin was allowed to rewrite the script himself , which he did in a year 's time . He filmed the project in Florida and Los Angeles and had a cameo appearance in the film as Jack 's lawyer . Reactions to both the film and Mirkin 's direction of it were more varied compared to Romy and Michele 's High School Reunion . Roger Ebert said the film was not " as sly and has no ambition to be [ as ] charming " as Romy and Michele 's High School Reunion , " but in a season of dreary failed comedies it does what a comedy must : It makes us laugh . " Chris Hewitt of Empire wrote that " Mirkin 's direction is a little flat , but he 's clearly having tremendous fun , " but Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today opined that Mirkin " never gets the timing right and allows the story to drag with little internal logic . " 
