SnoopyStyle
It's a group of gay friends in West Hollywood. Dennis (Timothy Olyphant) is a photographer with an upcoming birthday. Benji (Zach Braff) is blonde. Cole (Dean Cain) is the charismatic manizer. The group also includes grad student Howie, Taylor, Patrick, Leslie, Anne and many others. Jack (John Mahoney) is the owner of a restaurant who keeps trying organize a softball team The Broken Hearts.Everybody is being so gay. It reeks of sitcom gays except it is so sincere. It is a gay rom-com. The comedy is pretty weak. The romance is fleeting. There are so many characters and some of them blend into each together. I don't feel for any of the relationships. I couldn't keep track of who's who and I don't really care about any of them.
Armand
About gay life style. Gray, red nuances and melancholic crumbs. Few friends and their circle. Small dramas and a new definition for normal existence. Same ordinary sins and expectations. Same need of the other and same desire to define himself. It is not a film about a minority. Or description of a society level. But a picture. Small, naive, complicated, with many shadows and young faces. A page. About beauties of life and the ways to have essence of its. It is not a case. Films about relationship between gays are a lot. But in this case special is the science to say the small facts not as sketch of damned people or strange little world but as mirror of ordinaries tensions, games or sadness. That is all!
marcus_stokes2000
*The Broken SPOILERS Club* It's the story of five gay friends, Dennis (Timothy Olyphant), the soft-spoken photographer and main character, Benji (a blond Zach Braff) a gym bunny, Patrick (Ben Weber), constantly grouchy, Cole (Dean Cain), the one with the Matinèe Idol good looks, and Howie (Matt McGrath), a psychiatry student who seems to have problems relating to people, as his relationship with Marshall (Justin Theroux) attests.The friends also play baseball in the 'Broken Hearts', the absolute worst baseball team in the world, under the watchful eye of Jack (John Mahoney) and his lover, the Purple Guy (Robert Arce). Coincidentally, the 'Broken Hearts' is also the restaurant where the guys hang out the most and where some of them work.One day, young 'newbie' Kevin (Andrew Keegan) enters the picture and big queen Taylor (Billy Porter) is dumped for 'a punctuation mark' by his boyfriend.That is just the beginning of a season of change for each and everyone of the Broken Hearts Club's card-carrying members, including African-style living rooms, sad deaths, rushes to the hospital, lesbian sister and lover asking for brother's sperm to make a baby, 'therapy sessions', sex with supposedly straight movie stars and more...It was finally refreshing to see a gay movie where they say 'Ok, they're here, they're gay, movin'on'... and touch on relationship with a realism Howie would be proud of.Well, seeing who the director and writer is I shouldn't be surprised, but Everwood's Greg Berlanti managed to do exactly that.He also is aided by a very good cast and crew, who make 'The Broken Hearts Club' a heartwarming flick that can speak to any man, whether gay or straight.The Broken Hearts Club: 9/10.
pogostiks
There is not much point in wasting more than one line on this film; it couldn't have been worse even if they tried. However, IMDb insists that I go on for at least ten lines. Let's see...every single idea in this film has been done before... and BETTER! Not only that, but they didn't even have the decency to give us one even mildly titillating sex scene. That's probably because no-one in the film was committed enough to the film to even dare to attempt one. Besides the fact that it was not funny (I think I smiled once during the entire film)there was no-one in the film that you could seriously care about. Even the worst of TV situation comedies comes across as more witty than this... I think they should have added a laugh track. At least we would have known what was supposed to be a joke. Have I done my ten lines yet? Please, let me out of here! I want to forget this film as quickly as possible.
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