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Broken
Tuxxer

5 out of 10

For ever movie that touches your heart, there's another picture that makes you a bit queasy. Sadly, Broken is one of those pictures.

It's a wonder this movie was made. The script is nothing but a grocery list of 'Girl with big dreams moves to Hollywood' clichés. She ends up working the night shift at a diner. She has an ex-boyfriend with drug problems. She met him on a beach. We have flashbacks running throughout.

The diner itself is sparsely filled with other Hollywood residents. The skeezy-and-British record producer. The two guys looking to score. The high-cost prostitute and her madam. The used-up bag lady that reminds the heroine unnervingly of herself. The also-skeezy film producer.

The direction is nothing outstanding. Heather Graham's acting is the same as it ever was, heartfelt but not entirely convincing. Jeremy Sisto does a fine job as the dangerous junkie, but I felt I already watched him play that on Six Feet Under (and Suicide Kings). Replace 'junkie' with 'chemically unbalanced prodigy' and you're there.

The plot has a twist or two, but nothing that makes the movie remarkable in any way. Your time is better spent elsewhere than watching Broken.

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