Country star Toby Keith makes his acting debut in this rickety heartland drama, which was produced by Country Music Television and panders shamelessly to the traditional-values crowd.
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Broken Bridges (2006)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:1
Rotten:19
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: A cliched attempt at a feel-good drama, Broken Bridges is schmaltzy, predictable, and stiffly acted.
Theatrical Release:Sep 8, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $219,103
Synopsis: Broken Bridges is a bittersweet story of former high school sweethears, Bo Price (Toby Keith) and Angela Delton (Kelly Preston), who return home after the deaths of their younger brothers and are... [More]
Starring: Toby Keith, Lindsey Haun, Daniel Newman, Bebe Winans
Director: Steven Goldmann
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Reviews for Broken Bridges
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Top CriticThe kind of trite material that seems better suited for the small screen than the big screen.
04/01/07
An imperfect but emotionally true and often magnificently acted drama.
03/01/07
Soundtrack sales seem to be the main motivation behind this corny and cliched Southern melodrama that marks the film debut of country music star Toby Keith.
10/09/06
It feels about as sincere and insightful as a Schlitz-induced rendition of Achy-Breaky Heart.
09/29/06
Director Goldmann, who cut his teeth directing videos for Shania Twain and Faith Hill, never misses a chance to punch-up an emotional scene with a contrived, heart-melting music performance by one or more of his stars.
09/23/06
It's obviously intended as a star vehicle, but Broken Bridges turns out to be a rattletrap jalopy for country music performer Toby Keith.
09/22/06
Top CriticA limp, timeworn tale of a drunken has-been country star (Keith) and a TV reporter he had and lost (Kelly Preston) who meet again after returning home because of a tragedy.
09/08/06
The Country Music Channel's first foray into feature filmmaking is sickly sweet and thoroughly predictable.
09/08/06
When you can get just as good on the Hallmark network, why drive all the way to a theater?
09/08/06
Top CriticIt would have served Keith better to pick a project that didn't accentuate a character who stumbles around an aimless plot with the same confusion of Bruce Banner coming down from one of his 'smash' moods.
09/08/06
Broken Bridges is one of those movies where most scenes start with a character staring out over a pond, sitting on a porch, or looking at an old photograph, just waiting to reminisce with whoever sidles up next to them.
09/08/06
Strictly for fans of Keith, or drunk people with bemused contempt for same.
09/08/06
Any viewer who can't predict the outcome of this modest flick must not be familiar with a certain genre to which it is indebted: the made-for-TV movie.
09/08/06
Top CriticThe most uncritical, red-state fans of the ridiculously imposing country star will get exactly the sort of thinly plotted, poorly dialogued, feel-good flick they expect, while anyone else will wonder why this film deserved a green light.
09/07/06
Keith remains as rigid as a bookcase.
09/07/06
At every turn, Broken Bridges is filled with clichéd predictability.
09/07/06
Top CriticBroken Bridges takes too many shortcuts and hits too many obvious notes.
09/07/06
Top CriticBroken Bridges feels scrapped-together, like something that might have premiered on the old Turner South network.
09/07/06
Top CriticTerribly mawkish, like a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie. And not even a good TV movie.
09/06/06
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