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Best movie of this year hands down!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Obviously some viewers have a personal vendetta about this film. It wont be for everyone but it definitely can be appreciated. Its better than 90% of the garbage we watch today. For those that said this movie has no point, or its boring and has no topic would be wrong. You should try just watching a film with an open mind rather than hating on it from the opening credits. This movie is what you make it and its not supposed to be black & white answers. If you had a brain you would understand this film very easily. Most of the characters are just simply symbols for something greater. Whether they exist or not is irrelevant because after all this is why we sit down in front of the TV in the first place, to watch something that isn't real! I think some people tend to forget that.

I haven't seen anyone else comment on this point, so here goes. Will (Jeremy Sisto), who plays Hope's (Heather Graham) "boyfriend" in the film, IS THE HEROIN. His character is a metaphor for the heroin addiction. He doesn't actually exist. It's the heroin that makes Hope do all the terrible things she does -- Will is like an embodied spirit of heroin, if you will -- and the heroin that almost kills her (like Will with the gun -- the gun is the needle...). She almost kills herself OD'ing at the end, but it's really her "shooting Will with the gun" that in the end, saves her -- because she is killing the addiction by almost killing herself (and the short-order cook helps her out.) Great film. Watch it for the clever metaphor, not as a literal tale.

The aspirant singer Hope (Heather Graham) leaves Cleveland to Los Angeles expecting to succeed in the career of rock-and-roll singer. She meets the funny Will (Jeremy Sisto) on the beach and they fall in love for each other. However, Will addicts Hope in heroin, destroying her dreams. Later, Hope escapes from Will, trying to put her life back on the trails and working as waitress in the Blue Star Café. However, one night she is caught by Will that wants her back with him to his life."Broken" is an original drama about lost dreams, where the non-linear plot is actually a bad trip of the lead character Hope. She is trapped in this café as if it were the purgatory of her broken dreams, reluctant to return to Cleveland as a loser that she is, while the clients are the possibilities or frustrations she had had along her life. The metaphor of the bright and dark lightning gives a good hint about the brilliant and vivid dreams she had or the dark nightmares of the world of the drugs of Hope. The performances of Heather Graham and Jeremy Sisto are awesome. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): Not Available

BROKEN is a great film in the old school of 1970's film-making, Dark, good acting, wonderful cinematography, amazing soundtrack by The Brian Jonestown Experience.Due for release on DVD November 20th (I think), so if you missed it in the theaters or at the many film festivals it screened at, then pick up the DVD. Heather Graham gives a great performance and the scene with her and Jessica Stroup are HOT! The nonlinear narrative is very cool, handled with mystery and atmosphere. Lots of questions are raised that if definitely gets you thinking about the film but also about your own decisions in life and the path these decisions have taken you on. There is Hope but there is also a Will. Nice work all around.