The perennial favorite of May’s films tells the wincingly funny story of an oddly determined young sporting goods salesman who suddenly realizes, in the midst of his Miami honeymoon, that his long anticipated marriage to a Jewish American princess was a disastrous mistake. Charles Grodin brings a disconcerting boyish whimsy to the strangely chipper newlywed convinced that redemption lies in (re)marriage to a blond Midwestern college undergraduate who he encounters on the beach and with whom he fell instantly and deliriously in love. A dark and wonderfully satiric romance, The Heartbreak Kid observes the consequences and ceremonies of love with wry dispassion. Echoing her pioneering stand-up work, May uses comedy to unsettle notions of propriety and the social norm, here by refusing to villainize the callous young groom and suggesting that his capricious betrayals are perhaps a “natural” expression of familial and social pressure and a desire secretly harbored by many.