Language of a Broken Heart (2013)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 9
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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4
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A neurotic best-selling author on love, with the heightened emotional capacity of a woman, can write so eloquently about the subject, but can't keep girls from leaving him. After he comes back to his apartment in New York City to find his fiancé with another man, he returns to his hometown and the only woman he ever left, his mother. There, he renews his relationships with the people that matter the most, his family and friends. By a simple twist of fate he meets a free-spirited bookseller who
Mar 8, 2013 Limited
House Lights Media
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Cast
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Juddy Talt
Nick -
Kate French
Emma -
Julie White
Mimi -
Ethan Cohn
Cubbie -
Lara Pulver
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Luke Coffee
Drake -
Kelley Johnson
Hailey -
Jonah Hall
Tommy -
Oscar Nunez
Adam, Adam Lebowitz -
Lydia Mackay
Robin -
Steve Anderson (V)
Phil -
Nikki Donley
Rebecca -
Michael Aills
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Matthew Posey
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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (9)
Just don't expect to fall hard for it.
Top CriticPart of the limp-rag ambience is due to Talt, who seems to be channeling Sarah Jessica Parker - which, unsurprisingly, does not work.
It's an inoffensive, undercooked film without much to say, but there are flashes of potential.
Nothing terribly special here, but perfectly played and a spiritual cousin to such early '90s indies as "Naked in New York" and "Ed's Next Move."
Today's romantic comedies may be the most dire product being rolled off American filmmaking assembly lines.
Exactly the movie that one expects it to be -- a frustrating quality for some, but smooth medicine for those who trust and like writer-actors' puppy dog tales that unfold loosely in the vein of Ed Burns.
Take (500) Days of Summer and Garden State, strip away their charms and you end up with Language of a Broken Heart, a handsomely shot but tired pile-up of indie rom-com clichés.
Language of a Broken Heart might have made a passable Hallmark or Lifetime TV movie, cushioned by the TV-movie context. But as a theatrical prospect, it's a fail.
Don't expect to fall head-over-heels for this tale of a nice guy finishing last, but you'll appreciate its quirks, insight and humor.
An entertaining enough Prodigal Son drama about a just-dumped love guru who finds the girl of his dreams when he returns home from the big city to lick his wounds.
The rom-com genre keeps scraping bottom, and this particular annoyance is about as low as you can get.
Lacks complexity, realism, wit and sophistication. Julie White radiates panache, though.
A feigned attempt at a stereotypically quirky indie film that has virtually nothing in the way of formal sophistication or narrative ambition.
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