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- 2013
- R
- House Lights Media
- 1 h 40 m
- 2013
- R
- House Lights Media
- 1 h 40 m
Summary After being dumped by his girlfriend, Nick, a novelist living in New York City, heads back to his hometown in Illinois where he meets Emma.
Directed By: Rocky Powell
Written By: Juddy Talt
- 2013
- R
- House Lights Media
- 1 h 40 m
- 2013
- R
- House Lights Media
- 1 h 40 m
Language of a Broken Heart
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Summary After being dumped by his girlfriend, Nick, a novelist living in New York City, heads back to his hometown in Illinois where he meets Emma.
Directed By: Rocky Powell
Written By: Juddy Talt
Where to Watch
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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44% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
33
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
44% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Nothing terribly special here, but perfectly played and a spiritual cousin to such early ’90s indies as “Naked in New York” and “Ed’s Next Move.”
Language of a Broken Heart has the Lifetime Network written all over it. It’s a fitting entry for that venue but as a theatrical feature, it’s simply not up to the task.
Although Language of a Broken Heart, a romantic comedy written by and starring Juddy Talt, eventually drowns in clichés and predictability, it has a few decent moments of humor and some appealing performances that make it marginally better than most vanity projects.
The film, directed by first-timer Rocky Powell, has a different happy ending in mind, one that adheres to rom-com formulas in a manner that should give it a second life on basic cable. Just don't expect to fall hard for it.
Part of the limp-rag ambience is due to Talt, who seems to be channeling Sarah Jessica Parker — which, unsurprisingly, does not work. Mostly it’s due to the script, which fails to meet the major romantic-comedy requirement of being clever about keeping lovers apart. All by itself, “The hero is kind of a drip” doesn’t cut it.
A feigned attempt at a stereotypically quirky indie film that has virtually nothing in the way of formal sophistication or narrative ambition.
Full of familiar tropes, exhausted rhythms, self-conscious references to genre forebears...Language of a Broken Heart, directed by Rocky Powell from a screenplay by Juddy Talt, is pure product.
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Production Company
Bridgeman Rock,
Janimation,
RGD Productions
Release Date Mar 8, 2013
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating R
