Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Paul It's usually a good idea to avoid the pitfalls your characters traverse in the course of a movie.The vacuousness of the vacant discoveries the cast make here makes it a movie that precisely showcases all the empty and blind lines of modern love itself.All these self involved men have the dream of being in a male couple but yet, they aren't even interested in the name of the other partner in the one long term male couple in their circle. He's treated like a joke and practically ignored when his lover dies. (Not a spoiler really; someone always dies in these things.) This is supposed to be a story about gay men finding and keeping love? At least our lead (though not the author's obvious autobio threads) "couple" (Olypahant and Keegan) seem to come to an almost grown up discussion about non-monogamy in a relationship. Too bad it's a relationship they won't be having.Otherwise it's the run-o-the-mill "empty sex is bad" morality tale and "waiting is noble" crappy advice that so many gay men are still buying into, even 14 years after this movie was made.Gay men will never break these heterosexual constrictions on themselves and their relationships when supposedly smart, gay, and with-it writers are furthering the groupthink of acceptable norms and the shame of where you put your genitals, when they so badly misread and misrepresent like this.-still worth it for camp value-

John Frame I liked Broken Hearts Club from the first preview session in a local (Brisbane) boutique cinema. I've thoroughly enjoyed it several times since on DVD - including last night. The only flaw that really gets to me is in the opening scene where the gay friends are playing at acting straight and Benji is declared the loser for misusing the term "girlfriend". Dennis adds one too many negatives when explaining why Benji has lost, saying "There isn't a straight man in America who doesn't call anyone but their girlfriend 'girlfriend'." The intention was to state that straight men never call each other "girlfriend", so he should instead have said "There isn't a straight man in America who calls anyone but their girlfriend 'girlfriend'." It's a minor point to some, perhaps, but double negatives (especially when misused) give me a severe headache.Broken Hearts Club still gets five stars, because the other flaws are truly trifling and there are some excellent memorable lines delivered by all of the characters.Dean Cain (one of the most attractive, and contentedly straight, men in the world) utterly convinces in his role as gay bimbo Cole and seems to be having the time of his life.I have a similar group of long term friends, in whom our only common denominator is that we're gay - which is why we met in the first place. Just as with the guys in this film, its the genuine ongoing mutual support of our friends which makes us happy to be gay. Our group of friends in suburban Brisbane is in many respects radically different from the fictional group in West Hollywood - but on the "heart and soul" level we're very similar. I'm sure that experience is shared and celebrated by viewers world-wide.

mandycp To paraphrase one of the characters in this slight but enjoyable movie of the week, it's not enough to be gay, rather you should be an interesting person who happens to be gay. And that's basically the problem with this movie - it's about being gay, being gay, being gay... and not much else. I suspect however that it will ultimately find a place in the history of queer cinema as an example of the "homosexuality is good/healthy" period, as contrasted with all the gay stereotypes in movies up to the late 90's. It will also form a sharp contrast with subsequent cinema, in which the banalization of homosexuality returns the focus to drama (where it should be) not sexual orientation per se.

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.