How Posey's neurotic, self-destructive heroine finds her way to healing is the core of this generous film, whose moral is that happiness can't begin unless you're open to its possibility.
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Broken English (2007)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:47
Rotten:25
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Though Broken English eventually settles into basic rom-com territory, it’s pleasant and good-natured, and Parker Posey is spellbinding throughout the movie.
Theatrical Release:2007
Box Office: $818,674
Synopsis: Known mainly for playing quirkily comic characters, Parker Posey shows she can tackle a serious role just as skillfully in Zoe Cassevetes's moving film. BROKEN ENGLISH stars Posey as Nora Wilder, a... [More]
Starring: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands
Director: Zoe Cassavetes
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Reviews for Broken English
A welcome chance to see Posey at her flighty, edgy best. Is there an actress alive better able to convey the neuroses and self-doubts of the typical over-educated, under-challenged American woman?
07/19/07
Posey's admirers will experience a sensual intoxication that fans always experience when their film goddesses are at their very best.
11/22/07
Even if the idea of a spin around the foibles of romance racetrack seems repulsive, see the film for Posey's dynamically nuanced performance. It's worth a view just to witness her best screen work to date.
06/22/07
Not a great film by any stretch, Broken English distinguishes itself by providing a wonderful opportunity for Parker Posey to show her immense talents.
07/03/07
Cassavetes supplies no easy answers or easy laughs, forgoing romantic-comedy beats in respect for Nora's desperation. Call this confection a romantic-dramedy with humor on wry.
07/20/07
Top CriticThe always-riveting and criminally underused Posey gives a beautifully calibrated performance, possibly her most realized and multidimensional to date.
06/21/07
Top CriticAs a director, Cassavetes is a keen observer of character and social interaction.
07/12/07
Top CriticIf Broken English has anything, it’s a bold sense of direction.
06/22/07
This isn't the best independent film we've seen starring Miss Posey, but she is the reason this one works.
11/21/07
"Broken English" is a mature romantic comedy that shamelessly digs into a zeitgeist of American female neurosis. It's the best thing Parker Posey has done in years, and more than makes up for her participation in Hal Hartley's recent train wreck "Fay Grim
07/17/07
Although it's conventionally filmed and rather flat looking, the first dramatic feature written and directed by Zoe Cassavetes displays a good deal of her father John's appreciation for unembellished honesty.
07/12/07
When Nora decides to take yet another risk against her better judgment, the film leaves to you to judge it as quixotic, vexing, or fitting.
08/16/07
The fence-straddling would be fatal if it weren’t for Posey, who takes what’s essentially a character sketch and turns it into a three-dimensional mess in a dress.
07/13/07
Cassavetes keeps things interesting by maintaining a dry tone that almost passes for real wit and elicits some disarming performances from her attractive cast.
06/20/07
Though there's little unfamiliar here, pic's tipping the scales more toward latent-depression drama and away from typical romcom situation gags (the humor here is more offhand) makes it seem truer to life than many similar exercises.
01/21/07
Top CriticThis crosscultural romance, an updated version of Hollywood's Three Coins in the Fountain and Summertime, has a more resonant subtext than text, examining societal and familial pressures on women; Parker Posey gives an impressively modulated performance.
01/21/07
It's only an average film, but that first half is a pip, and the whole thing is refreshingly simple and good-natured.
02/17/07
A psychologically rich drama that presents an illuminating anatomy of the anguish of loneliness and the way it often gives a desperate edge to our search for love.
06/20/07
Single Manhattan career gal finds self, not shoes, in this bittersweet romantic-comedy that's a showcase for Posey.
06/22/07
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