Broken (2007)

"...an intense performance [by Graham]...  Harvey Karten, CompuServe

Editor's Note Heather Graham stars as an aspiring musician in this tension-filled drama. Hope (Graham) has nearly given up her dream of fame and is living a quiet life as a waitress when an ex-boyfriend (Jeremy Sisto) shows up at the restaurant and begins to wreak havoc in her life.

	Heather Graham
	Jake Busey
	Jeremy Sisto
	Linda Hamilton
	Alan White - Director
	Charisse Cardenas - Production Designer
	Drew Pillsbury - Screenplay
	Jay Nelson - Editor
	Jeehun Hwang - Original Music By
	Jeff Lester - Based On Story By
	Lauren Raquel Pusich - Art Director
	Neil Shapiro - Cinematographer
	Shari Lane Bowles, et. al. - Producer

The Village Voice 6 of 10
It's hard to say who suffers most after boy meets girl at the beach. Is it Hope (Heather Graham), who turns to heroin and can't get a singing gig because of those damned track marks? Is it Will (Jeremy Sisto), who goes psycho after Hope dumps him? Or is it audiences, who are subjected to the most dubious plays on character names since Nearing Grace? Hungry for dope but short on cash, boy keeps girl in check with a maxim from his youth: "Where there's a Will, there's a way." Disgusted by Will's perpetual drugging--and maybe even his corny witticisms--Hope cleans up and gets a job at a diner, which becomes the locus of director Alan White's lame aspirations to Lynchian meta-ness...Every diner patron laughably represents some facet of Hope's victimology as an artist and woman, from the agent who insincerely promises fame to a group of aspiring musicians to the filthy old woman who stands for Hope's future if she doesn't lay off the smack. By the time a skeevy producer offers her a part in a movie titled--wait for it--Broken, one begins to pity Graham for having walked into such a transparent booby trap. - Ed Gonzalez