Broken is a pretentiously time-fragmented, tedious slog.
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10/19/07
Broken (2007)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:2
Rotten:14
Average Rating:3.8/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 5, 2007 Limited
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... [More]
Starring: Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, Tess Harper, Linda Hamilton
Director: Alan White
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04/03/08
Despite good work by the two leads to put it back together again, Broken lives up to its title.
10/31/07
...a fairly tedious and thoroughly familiar portrait of drug abuse.
11/17/07
One begins to pity Graham for having walked into such a transparent booby trap.
10/02/07
Top CriticBroken 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
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
Ideas aren't enough to overcome a badly organized structure and often stilted acting.
10/05/07
Top Critic[The] script is so uneven that the result is like watching four different, equally bad, movies.
11/12/07
'Why?' you may wonder as the end credits roll on director Alan White's Broken.
10/19/07
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
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticBroken 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
Says nothing new in a familiar way.
10/11/07
Heather Graham's would-be singer-songwriter in Broken is a walking cliché in a film overstuffed with them.
10/12/07
If Broken defies basic credibility, it is at least well acted.
10/05/07
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