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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary The summer holidays have just begun and 11 year-old Skunk's afternoons are full of day dreams and curious wanderings around her neighborhood - with the exception that she must regularly give herself injections to combat her type 1 diabetes. When, one day, Skunk (Eloise Laurence) discovers her bitter and angry older neighbor, Mr. Oswald (...

Directed By: Rufus Norris

Written By: Daniel Clay, Mark O'Rowe

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 31 m

Broken

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
53
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
7.3
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Summary The summer holidays have just begun and 11 year-old Skunk's afternoons are full of day dreams and curious wanderings around her neighborhood - with the exception that she must regularly give herself injections to combat her type 1 diabetes. When, one day, Skunk (Eloise Laurence) discovers her bitter and angry older neighbor, Mr. Oswald (...

Directed By: Rufus Norris

Written By: Daniel Clay, Mark O'Rowe

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
53
26% Positive
5 Reviews
63% Mixed
12 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
53
26% Positive
5 Reviews
63% Mixed
12 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews

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75
Jul 17, 2013
Doggedly manipulative and yet consistently affecting, Broken piles on the miserablism to almost unbearable effect.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 15, 2013
Rufus Norris’s debut film, Broken, is a fractured, tonally scrambled British coming-of-age movie with flashes of greatness and an intensely felt performance by a young actress named Eloise Laurence.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 18, 2013
Solidly done if somewhat unremarkable, there is nothing particularly wrong with "Broken," nothing that needs fixing exactly, and yet it never fully comes together.
By Mark Olsen FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 14, 2013
Believably charts a girl’s coming of age but is eventually capsized by lurid melodrama.
By Neil Smith FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 18, 2013
At a certain point, Mr. Norris forsakes realism for theatricalized fantasy, and Broken ultimately loses its stylistic cohesion, if not its humanity.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 14, 2013
Norris and his director of photography Rob Hardy have shot it with stylish confidence, but Mark O’Rowe’s script (adapted from Daniel Clay’s novel) feels cramped and over-schematic.
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25
Jul 16, 2013
Awkward music cues and choppy camera work add baggage to a film so overwrought that its excesses seem more unintentionally silly than bleakly disturbing.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
7.3
75% Positive
6 Ratings
13% Mixed
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75% Positive
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13% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Production Company BBC Film, Bill Kenwright Films, Cuba Pictures, Lipsync Productions
Release Date Jul 19, 2013
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

British Independent Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 9 Nominations
Stockholm Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
California Independent Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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