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Broken English
Magnolia Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sexual content, brief drug use and language
Starring
Parker Posey,
Melvil Poupaud,
Drea de Matteo,
Justin Theroux,
Gena Rowlands,
Peter Bogdanovich,
Tim Guinee,
and
Josh Hamilton
In a startling mature and nuanced performance, Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about love and relationships, in this astute collaboration with first-time writer/director Zoe Cassavetes. (Magnolia Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Zoe R. Cassavetes
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Zoe R. Cassavetes
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 21, 2007
Theatrical: June 22, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Nominated, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic), 2007 Sundance Film Festival

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88
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
Broken English takes 30 minutes to do what most romantic comedies manage with a simple montage. That's a good thing, by the way.

75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie needs more incident and complication; it's modest to a fault.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
As a director, Cassavetes is a keen observer of character and social interaction but not yet much of a visual stylist (which might also describe the improvisational dramas made by her actor/director father, John).

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
A pleasantly disposable romantic comedy starring the once and future indie-queen Parker Posey.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
As charmingly verklemmt New York women with bad luck in men and good luck in apartments go, Nora Wilder in Broken English has all the breaks.

70
The New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
A well-acted, smartly directed film that’s depressing because it could have amounted to so much more. It departs from the studio-financed romantic-comedy template in just one, unfortunately fatal respect: it makes a point of pride out of rejecting cliché, then swoons into its embrace.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Demonstrating that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, the screenwriter-director has delivered a well-observed film boasting highly realistic performances and dialogue, if not plot elements. But it's Posey's fascinating portrayal of a thirtysomething Manhattan single woman looking for love that lifts the film above its "Sex and the City" predictabilities.

70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
A wry, charming romance about a New York woman who has given up hope of finding love.

70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A pitch-perfect lead performance by Parker Posey and debuting feature writer-helmer Zoe Cassavetes' deft, low-key approach raise Broken English a couple notches above the usual run of lonely-single-woman-seeking-romance-in-the-big-city yarns.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
There's not a lot of story here and the dialogue lacks the snap one usually gets in New York stories of affluent young adults, but the characters have an authenticity.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
This movie belongs to Posey, and her nuanced performance makes Broken English a worthy adventure.

63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Both neurotic and endearing, it's so carefully accessorized you may not even notice that, at heart, it's a standard-issue romantic comedy.

63
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
It's the stuff of countless advice columns, daytime talk shows, sitcoms, romantic comedies. Quite frankly, it's tired. What makes a difference here -- although really not enough of one -- is the people.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's the kind of film that will resonate only with a tiny fraction of the available audience. Unless a viewer's age and situation mirrors that of Posey's Nora Wilder, odds are that this movie will generate a sense of déjà vu.

63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
For all its impeccable indie credibility, writer-director Zoe Cassavetes' bittersweet romance is little more than a hipster chick flick in which the same old smart women make the usual foolish choices.

63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Posey is a delight throughout, and Zoe Cassavetes is clearly a filmmaker to watch.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Cassavetes, who wrote the script, proves her skill with actors in this woozy push-and-pull of slurred compliments and shaky hopes for whatever lies beyond the next day.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There is a very good movie named "Before Sunset" that begins more or less where this one ends. Which tells you something right there.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A conventional New York-lonely hearts story made watchable by one element and one element only: Parker Posey.

60
Film Threat
Jamie Tipps
What began as an interesting character study ends in convention, offering only the most clichéd platitudes in summation. You can't find true love until you love yourself? Hasn't Dr. Phil been telling us that for years?

60
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
Posey remains touching as the woman with happiness in sight but bewilderingly out of reach.

60
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Despite its schizophrenic nature and often disagreeable characteristics, Broken English has flashes of something. You might say it has an integrity of purpose, if not of execution.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Given the gift of Posey at the peak of her powers, Cassavetes squanders her star in low-key, go-nowhere conversations, shot without flair and drained of any improvisatory energy.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Broken English doesn't break any code or offer original insights on the subject. But there's a spark whenever Posey and Poupaud are together.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Almost nothing that's said or done here is convincing. And the energy is set at near-coma level.

50
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
How Posey's neurotic, self-destructive heroine finds her way to healing is the core of this generous film, whose moral is that happiness can't begin unless you're open to its possibility.

50
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
If Broken English occasionally falls prey to a bit too much self-conscious lethargy, it's still a welcome chance to see Posey at her flighty, edgy best.


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