The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
R | 01 February 2000 (USA)
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A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life's disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Greenes

Please don't spend money on this.

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Nessieldwi

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

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Cheryl

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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MovieHoliks

I couldn't remember if I had seen this or not, so thought I'd check out this 2000 comedy off HBO GO, and Two Snaps Up! Written and directed by Greg Berlanti, "The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy" follows the lives of a group of gay friends in West Hollywood, centered on a restaurant owned by the fatherly Jack (John Mahoney, "Frasier"'s dad!) and the softball team he sponsors. The friends rely on each other for friendship and support as they search for love, deal with loss, and discover themselves. The film does a good job of portraying homosexuality in a normal context, just as any film dealing with similar issues involving straight friends. It was fun seeing Mahoney especially play this character. He was the one thing that made me "think" I had maybe seen this awhile back-??-but not sure. And I was ROTFLMAO during the softball game!! Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Nia Long, Mary McCormack, and a pre-"Scrubs" Zach Braff round out the cast.

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donwc1996

As I watched this film I was amazed how so many straight guys were talked into playing gay characters so I did some research and learned that the fellow behind it, Greg Berlanti just happens to be a major television producer. He is also out. Put the two together and you get a film like this, a very clear political statement meant for the straight world. Does it work? I think it does. I haven't done any scientific study but I have the feeling that the straight hunks in this film should be enough to get people's attention when they are looking for a movie to watch. I can just imagine straight guys weeping and wailing when they discover the film is gay, leaving their lady friends to watch the movie on their own, their only consolation a cat in the lap.

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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!

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nycritic

If the romance genre has created its own sub-genre that translates to "light and breezy" -- one that we've come to baptize as "chick-lit", gay romance can now claim its own. THE BROKEN HEARTS' CLUB: A ROMANTIC COMEDY takes its cue from earlier films about gay men (LONGTIME COMPANION, for one source), squeezes all the juice from it, adds quite a whopper of filtered water and fructose syrup, and throws in Dean Cain for some necessary eye-candy even though he is never seen in anything but clothes and more clothes to boot while playing what amounts to quite an unlikable cad.In short, this is a very artificial movie, full of calories and not much dramatic weight. I would assume that in light of HBO's "Sex and the City", Hollywood would make an attempt at doing a gay version (not that it was needed; the HBO series is in its own right about four gay men -- they're just played by women). Here we're introduced to widely different young men (and one older queen played by John Mahoney, easily the best part of the movie, hands down) and their struggles through love and disappointment in a very deep place called West Hollywood.Of course, it can be rather difficult to feel anything for characters who in a heartbeat throw a potential date out of the house due to the fact they don't like, or are acquainted with, Karen Carpenter, or when one a relationship counselor practically stalks his ex-lover (not before dispensing tidbits of advice that hint at a reconciliation). Zach Braff at least fares better: his character has a hilarious moment as he tries to pump up in order to catch the attention of the gym bunny who he has the hots for. The same goes for Ben Weber who plays the male version of what Cynthia Nixon did in "Sex and the City" even though his cynicism does wear out its welcome later in the film. (He does have a great moment of total bewilderment alongside Mary McCormack who plays his lesbian sister who gives him a tight deadline to decide to donate his sperm so she and her partner, played by Nia Long, could have a baby.) It's a movie with more pluses than minuses, however. Take it as the latest paperback that you might find in your local drugstore or supermarket of choice -- nothing that will amount to a classic, but a quick, entertaining read. And that's always welcome.

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