It tells the story of a sports shop owner who ends up in a rushed marriage with a woman and meets a true love interest during a trip to Mexico.

Lila eventually announces that the company where she works as an environmental researcher requires her to move to Rotterdam.

During the drive to their honeymoon in Los Cabos, Mexico, Eddie learns things about Lila he finds annoying, such as incessant singing.

Eddie tries to look beyond Lila's recent behaviors, but his disaffection deepens when she divulges her history of substance abuse which resulted in a deviated septum, so she sprays drinks out of her nose.

Coerced by "Uncle Tito", the hotel owner and a friend of Mac’s, Eddie decides to go to Mississippi to make amends with Miranda.

Eighteen months later, Eddie is divorced from Lila (who got his store) and moves to Mexico to sell sporting goods on the beach.

It is also revealed that Lila returned to Los Cabos and stayed at a hotel room with a donkey whom she has sexual relations with.

[4] The Farrelly brothers were subsequently hired in 2005, thus ending the process of development hell after a few false starts, proceeding to production.

[6] The film grossed US$14,022,105 (equivalent to $20,604,461 in 2023) in 3,219 theaters in its opening weekend, putting it in second place at the box office in North America.

The film eventually grossed a total of $127,766,650 (equivalent to $187,743,773 in 2023) worldwide, which includes $36,787,257 in North America and $90,979,393 in other territories.

The website's critical consensus reads: "Despite some amiable performances, The Heartbreak Kid is neither as daring nor as funny as the Farrelly Brothers' earlier films.