The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)

Excellent but underrated film

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

story of friendship. romantic bitter comedy. a version of Sex in The City. and the right cast. its basic virtue - the state after its final credits. it has the comfortable name of emotion. but it is more. a mixture of unusual portrait of a community, vulnerable, powerful, ball of personal stories and confessions and sport and vulnerabilities. and this does it special. like a sort of fairy tale. without the happy end. as a realistic portrait of a way to live. and to define reality. like the map of a fortress . in which the love has different nuances. a film about an universe. admirable, fragile, strange, pink and profound male.

Broken Hearts Club is pretty much the exact sort of movie you can see on Lifetime or the Hallmark Channel but with an all gay plot. It's a slickly produced feel good movie with an attractive cast. And that's it. Great for Saturday evening viewing if, unlike the characters in the film, you're not out at a club. A shot or two of tequila or a few glasses of wine or a couple bottles of beer or all of the above will vastly improve your viewing pleasure.Since Broken Hearts Club doesn't think it's something it isn't it's sort of not fair to tear it apart. But if you don't like cliché characters, completely predictable plots, unfunny jokes, and ridiculous dialog don't watch Broken Hearts Club.

A lot of people reviewing this movie (both gay and straight) seem to feel either it's a bad movie or just not a very good one. I disagree. I loved this movie when I first watched it around 2001 and I still love it. True, it has a flaws (I'll get to them in a minute) but what movie doesn't? Let me start by saying my biggest gripe with this movie had nothing to do with the direction, screenplay or acting (all of which I liked) but with the soundtrack. To hear Dennis and Kevin talk about The Carpenters' music and what it means to them yet to hear the songs and it's not Karen's angelic voice or Richard playing the piano - well, what a bummer. But that is truly my only major complaint. I feel the lesbian angle could have been left out and Patrick's character might have met a nice guy who fell in love with him would have made a better story. The story has characters that are likable and real. Anyone who feels gay men don't sit around and talk about guys all the time is like saying straight men don't sit around and talk about sports all of the time. Or maybe sports and women. I liked that the characters were all so different, yet seemed to really about each other as friends, even with their troubles and disagreements. I don't think this is the type of movie straight people or lesbians will enjoy, but I would recommend it to anyone who plays on the team that this movie portrays.

As a mature (61) gay man, I enjoyed the hell out of this film. At least there was a diversity of stereotypes. I guess it would be boring to show that most gays lead "regular" lives in all kinds of workplaces. The angst was, thankfully, less "Dawson's Creek" and more universal. The experienced straight actors helped it flow along nicely, a cut above the usual sloppy, Indie-style gay movie. The Lesbian subplot should have been expanded--or left out! I recommend this movie to all young lesbians and gays facing a still altogether ignorant homophobic society---but one that has improved since I was their age. Kudos to the people behind the camera too!