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DVD REVIEW
Broken
Starring: Heather Graham and Jeremy Sisto
First Look
DVD Review
By Amy Steele
Remember Boogie Nights and Heather Graham's breakout role as Rollergirl? That was 10 years ago.
She went on to play cute and sweet in the delightful Sidewalks of New York [with her then boyfriend, writer/director Edward Burns]; cute and perky in quirky The Guru; cute and sexy in hysterical The Oh in Ohio;, cute and magnetic in the syrupy but fun fantasy Cake; cute and super shagable as Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and cute in the ensemble drama Bobby. She's attempted television with a stint on Scrubs and then her own failed series Emily's Reasons Why Not which made absolutely no sense [I watched maybe five minutes of it]. But she never failed to be cute on either show.
So what is the cute and expressive-eyed Graham doing in something like Broken? Isn't there any better material out there for her? I've seen her do it [see above films]. Sure, she's unlikely to find that Academy-award winning role, but she's entertaining. Broken lacks decent dialogue, character development and purpose. It's a shell of a film. The only good thing in it: a soundtrack with plenty of Brian Jonestown Massacre songs.
Hope [lying on the beach]: Does this usually work for you? This approach?
Will: Do you want me to go?
Hope: Do you want to go?
Will: Well no, but . . .
Hope [Graham] escapes the Midwest to pursue her dream of being a musician. Ending up in Los Angeles, she meets Will [Jeremy Sisto]. The pair go home together and then start doing drugs and lolling around. She leaves him and ends up as a waitress. Graham is sunshine and smiles and exudes a bubbly, though somewhat deflated persona as character becomes frenzied, then reflective. As Will, Sisto is just doing what he's been doing since the end of Six Feet Under: playing the brooding, dangerous type. In what is intended as some sort of creative filmmaking montage, Hope confronts the deadly sins one night. Meanwhile, Will is driving to get her back. In flashbacks, he's obsessive and won't let her go. And I think, isn't that too much energy for a heroin addict. Shouldn't he just shoot up and forget instead of driving to get the girl? Nothing says "I love you" better than a gun.
Broken is a forgettable film with Graham languishing as the lead.
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