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Timothy Olyphant,
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Greg Berlanti,
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: Columbia TriStar
: Romantic Comedy, Gay & Lesbian, Features
: 95 min.
: English, French
: English, French
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Greg Berlanti directs this comedic romp about a quartet of gay yuppies looking for love in all the wrong places. Though photographer Dennis (Timothy Olyphant) longs for a long-term relationship, he loves and leaves gay neophyte Kevin (Andrew Keegan) at a birthday party. Dennis' associates aren't faring much better. Apartment mate and hunky actor Cole (Dean Cain) goes through boys like Kleenex, that is until he is curtly dumped by a closeted movie star. Taylor (Billy Porter) is ditched by his longtime boyfriend during a long distance phone call. And Patrick (Ben Weber) generally whines about how ugly he is. Romantic misunderstandings, an obligatory AIDS scare, and a climactic hug-a-thon soon follow. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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by alexjb
April 22, 2005 - 12:59 PM PDT
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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i enjoyed this movie well enough; it's light; it's a bit sappy; it doesn't really challenge the viewer; but i don't think that it was as bad as another reviewer did (theres a death, but i don't think it's AIDS related, tho maybe i glossed over that).
some of the characters are cliche, and the main plotlines are predictable. but there are some good jokes and some good dialogue, as well as some good words of wisdom.
there's a scene where the characters complain about not having any group-of-friends movies for gays to relate to that don't involve women, and clearly that's what the film makers were shooting for. if you and your friends map yourselves to characters in Steel Magnolias, then you might like Broken Hearts Club a lot. otherwise, don't expect too much... |
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by timwayne
March 24, 2005 - 5:09 PM PST
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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NOTE: This review contains spoilers.
The Broken Hearts Club is two movies in one: the first part (right up to the funeral scene) has some great gay camaraderie; the guys aren't prissy (except for the annoying Billy Porter---why, oh why, couldn't they get Taye Diggs). There's no obligatory AIDS death, no subliminal anti-drug messages (drug overdoses or bad times on drugs), no pining about lost youth or looks. The movie celebrates the gay existence, shows the challenges all us gay guys face and wraps some of them up well. It's really fun to watch Tim Olyphant as a gay guy. The scorching-hot Andy Keegan plays the fresh-out-of-the-closet Twinkie. The even-hotter Dean Cain plays a closeted actor who nails him. The only death in the movie is one of natural causes, and it's not a bad ending for a guy who led a good, long, fun life. If you turn the movie off right after the funeral scene, like I should have done, then you may walk away from this movie having enjoyed it.
If, however, you stay for the second half, you get a whole different movie and it's pure crap. You get treated to the obligatory AIDS death, the none-too-subtle anti-drug messages (a one-two punch on this theme: the guy who smokes pot once in a while instead of sucking down a dozen cosmos at the bar every night like his friends is, of course, a loser with no ambition who can't hold a job; the guy who snorts one bump of K ends up unconscious on the bathroom floor before getting carted off to the hospital for ---you guessed it--- all his friends joining hands in the ring-around-the-coma-victim hospital room tear-jerker scene). There's the I'm getting so old and ugly and nobody will love me guy, a forgettable performance by Matt McGrath of Boys Don't Cry. Ugh. I wanted to hit myself in the head with a hammer every time this guy came on screen. A lesbian couple makes an appearance for God-only-knows what reason (by and large, LA fags just don't hang with dykes). There's even a fag hag in there somewhere.
This movie has more clichés then Cannonball Run but without being weighed down by all the humor. A good sex scene between Cain and Keegan would have rescued this movie for me. Without it, I give this movie half a star.
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