story of friendship. romantic bitter comedy. a version of Sex in The City. and the right cast. its basic virtue - the state after its final credits. it has the comfortable name of emotion. but it is more. a mixture of unusual portrait of a community, vulnerable, powerful, ball of personal stories and confessions and sport and vulnerabilities. and this does it special. like a sort of fairy tale. without the happy end. as a realistic portrait of a way to live. and to define reality. like the map of a fortress . in which the love has different nuances. a film about an universe. admirable, fragile, strange, pink and profound male.

I saw "The Broken Hearts Club" when I was 25 years old. I had been out of the closet for 9 years already and had seen about every gay movie ever made. The vast majority of them were painful coming out stories that I couldn't relate to as my coming out was a wonderful time for me. My friends and family loved and accepted me.The reason this movie resonates with me is because it was the first gay movie I could relate to. So much was captured in the film that was a snapshot of my life. There was the way gay guys sit around all day talking about men. The petty jealousy of ex boyfriends who still want to sleep with each other. The thing that struck the strongest chord with me, however, was the way Kevin, after being so apprehensive about being with gay people, became completely acclimated to the group. It was my life when I was 24 exactly. To this day I still watch this movie ad it tugs at my heartstrings because it is the most accurate portrayal of gay life as I have known it.Before and after, no gay movie has been able to do what "The Broken Hearts Club" did so well. It portrayed the newness, the apprehension, the fear, the adventure, the heartache, the friendship and the survival that goes along with being gay. If you're gay, you should watch this movie to see that there are people who can relate to you. If you're not gay, watch it and understand what happens to many of us in our lives. You won't regret it.

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-

Its always a challenge to make a film about gay men where the characters do something other than talk about their romantic dreams or sex experiences, and this film does not escape that trap, making it a kind of Steel Magnolias for the Romantic Gay Male.For a particular market, this is an entertaining and frequently amusing slice of life, with early cameos from actors like Zach Braff and Dean Cain that tend to light up the screen now and then, and veteran character actor John Mahoney as the Reliable Old Guy. The main character tends to be a big of a drag after about forty minutes, moaning about too many unresolved issues that become tiresome for a viewer who might not share them. The film's heart is in the right place, certainly, showing affection for some gay men who face their daily dilemmas with some humor and no little irony, and its not a sleazy wallow. For a young about to be or just-out gay men looking for escapist fare, this film is probably an excellent choice