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04/03/08
Broken (2007)
13 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 2 Rotten:14 Average Rating: 3.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Synopsis: Heather Graham stars as an aspiring musician in this tension-filled drama. Hope (Graham) has nearly given up her dream of fame and is living a quiet life as a waitress when an ex-boyfriend (Jeremy Sisto) shows up at the restaurant and begins to wreak havoc in her life.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, Tess Harper, Linda Hamilton, Michael Goorjian
Director: Alan White
Screenwriter: Drew Pillsbury
Producer: Jerry Wayne, Brian Etting
Composer: Jeehun Hwang
Screenwriter: Drew Pillsbury
Producer: Jerry Wayne, Brian Etting
Composer: Jeehun Hwang
Reviews
1 - 17 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
[The] script is so uneven that the result is like watching four different, equally bad, movies.
11/12/07
Broken has little of any great substance to add to the old truism that L.A. eats its young (especially those who just got off the bus from Ohio) and then picks its teeth with their hopes and dreams.
11/12/07
Despite good work by the two leads to put it back together again, Broken lives up to its title.
10/31/07
Broken goes a bit heavy on the symbolism (naming the leads Hope and Will, for starters) and tries to stir up sympathy for characters who may not deserve it, but as cautionary tales go, it's worth a look.
10/19/07
Top Critic
'Why?' you may wonder as the end credits roll on director Alan White's Broken.
10/19/07
Top Critic
Heather Graham's would-be singer-songwriter in Broken is a walking cliché in a film overstuffed with them.
10/12/07
Alan White's follow-up to Risk is still pretty entertaining, if not in the way he intended.
10/05/07
Tiresome and turgid, Broken has nothing to say and says it slowly. Even the sex scenes are a bore.
10/05/07
Ideas aren't enough to overcome a badly organized structure and often stilted acting.
10/05/07
Top Critic
The only thing more tired than a tarted-up movie about junkie codependence starring attractive performers emoting junkie-like is a tarted-up movie about losers in an all-night diner. Broken combines both clichés.
10/03/07
One begins to pity Graham for having walked into such a transparent booby trap.
10/02/07
A stagy piece that allows the audience to wonder how much is going on in the central character's drug-induced hallucinations and how much is real--No matter, though, since nothing is particularly dramatic or original.
09/19/07
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