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Overview

User Rating:
6.3/10   2,538 votes
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Director:
Zoe R. Cassavetes
Writer:
Zoe R. Cassavetes (writer)
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Release Date:
19 July 2007 (Singapore) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is in a relationship, is married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
A Little Zoë Cassavetes Triumph more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Parker Posey ... Nora Wilder

Drea de Matteo ... Audrey Andrews

Tim Guinee ... Mark Andrews

Gena Rowlands ... Vivien Wilder-Mann

Peter Bogdanovich ... Irving Mann
Roy Thinnes ... Peter Andrews

Michael Panes ... Glen

Justin Theroux ... Nick Gable

Philip Pavel ... Front Desk Worker

Melvil Poupaud ... Julien

Dana Ivey ... Elinor Gregory
William Wise ... William Gregory
Josh Hamilton ... Charlie Ross

Caitlin Keats ... Jennifer Ross

Russell Steinberg ... Carl (as Russel Steinberg)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Broken English (Japan: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some sexual content, brief drug use and language.
Runtime:
97 min | USA:93 min
Country:
USA | France | Japan
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color
Company:
HDNet Films more

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Quotes:
Vivien Wilder-Mann: The good ones get snapped up so quickly at your age. more
Movie Connections:
Features In a Lonely Place (1950) more
Soundtrack:
Walking on the Moon more

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A Little Zoë Cassavetes Triumph, 27 August 2007
10/10
Author: gradyharp from United States

BROKEN English has so many of the elements of films that are becoming difficult to find these days - superb intelligent script, a story that is frankly what it is instead of an overdone parody of itself, a director who knows how to pace a storyline to keep it compelling, and a cast of first class actors who have the gift of diving right to the core of characters we all meet every day and making us care about them. Writer/director Zoë Cassavetes may be young in her trade, but she here gives evidence that she clearly knows her way about creating fine movies! Nora Wilder (a mesmerizingly fine Parker Posey) has looks, a good job as a client relations director of a smart New York hotel, but she is now in her thirties and in comparison to her friends she is a social wasteland. She simply cannot find a satisfying relationship in this time of fast one night stands. Her mother (Gena Rowlands) is supportive of her plight and her best friend Audrey (Drea De Mateo, proving that she indeed is a fine actress) who is supposedly in a 'good marriage' with Mark (Tom Guinee) understands her needs and is willing to help, but all Nora can end up with are losers like mouthy actor Nick Gable (Justin Theroux) and morning after hangovers - until she encounters Frenchman Julien (Melvil Poupaud). Julien sees and appreciates Nora for who she is and while Nora seems on the brink of having found the perfect guy, her past history of failed romances prevents her from staying in the moment. But when Julien must return to Paris (seemingly the door of exit for yet another mismatch), Nora eventually gathers her courage and accompanied by Audrey sets off to Paris in hopes of joining the effervescent Julien. In Paris the two women search but cannot find Julien, but what Nora finds is herself - and that is rewarded by a climax that brings the film to a satisfying close.

Though Parker Posey has given us some excellent independent film roles in the past, nothing can match the magic she brings to this role. In fact the entire cast is so fine and so well motivated and directed by Cassavetes that every detail of the film is polished and shines like a the little triumph the film is. Highly recommended. Grady Harp

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