The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)

It's usually a good idea to avoid the pitfalls your characters traverse in the course of a movie.The vacuousness of the vacant discoveries the cast make here makes it a movie that precisely showcases all the empty and blind lines of modern love itself.All these self involved men have the dream of being in a male couple but yet, they aren't even interested in the name of the other partner in the one long term male couple in their circle. He's treated like a joke and practically ignored when his lover dies. (Not a spoiler really; someone always dies in these things.) This is supposed to be a story about gay men finding and keeping love? At least our lead (though not the author's obvious autobio threads) "couple" (Olypahant and Keegan) seem to come to an almost grown up discussion about non-monogamy in a relationship. Too bad it's a relationship they won't be having.Otherwise it's the run-o-the-mill "empty sex is bad" morality tale and "waiting is noble" crappy advice that so many gay men are still buying into, even 14 years after this movie was made.Gay men will never break these heterosexual constrictions on themselves and their relationships when supposedly smart, gay, and with-it writers are furthering the groupthink of acceptable norms and the shame of where you put your genitals, when they so badly misread and misrepresent like this.-still worth it for camp value-

About gay life style. Gray, red nuances and melancholic crumbs. Few friends and their circle. Small dramas and a new definition for normal existence. Same ordinary sins and expectations. Same need of the other and same desire to define himself. It is not a film about a minority. Or description of a society level. But a picture. Small, naive, complicated, with many shadows and young faces. A page. About beauties of life and the ways to have essence of its. It is not a case. Films about relationship between gays are a lot. But in this case special is the science to say the small facts not as sketch of damned people or strange little world but as mirror of ordinaries tensions, games or sadness. That is all!

This film about the friendship of a group of friends, whose friendship with each other is constantly under strain due to various arguments and fights."The Broken Hearts Club" is not quite a comedy as it appears to be. I find it full of sadness. The characters are all superficial and in fact unhappy deep inside. They back stab each other, hurt each other in almost every possible way. It's really sad to see that they call themselves friends, when they can't support each other. It brings me down. In addition, the film is full of clichés, I don't really find it so enjoyable.

There is not much point in wasting more than one line on this film; it couldn't have been worse even if they tried. However, IMDb insists that I go on for at least ten lines. Let's see...every single idea in this film has been done before... and BETTER! Not only that, but they didn't even have the decency to give us one even mildly titillating sex scene. That's probably because no-one in the film was committed enough to the film to even dare to attempt one. Besides the fact that it was not funny (I think I smiled once during the entire film)there was no-one in the film that you could seriously care about. Even the worst of TV situation comedies comes across as more witty than this... I think they should have added a laugh track. At least we would have known what was supposed to be a joke. Have I done my ten lines yet? Please, let me out of here! I want to forget this film as quickly as possible.