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- Greg Berlanti’s The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy told the story of six gay best friends — Dennis (Timothy Olyphant), Cole (Dean Cain), Benji (Zach Braff), Patrick (Ben Weber), Taylor (Billy Porter), and Howie (Matt McGrath) — navigating the Los Angeles dating scene.
ew.com/movies/2019/02/13/broken-hearts-club-oral-history/The Broken Hearts Club : Inside the making of the 2000 gay ...
The Broken Hearts Club was Berlanti's first feature film, based on his circle of friends at the time. The movie was met with generally favorable reviews from critics, receiving praise for portraying homosexuality as normal and its characters as average gay men.
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Tall, lean with dark hair and blue eyes, the then 25-year-old Greg Berlanti hailed from an Italian-American family in New Jersey. By 1997, he’d come out as gay, graduated from Northwestern University, and transplanted himself to West Hollywood with ambitions to write for the screen. Like many starving screenwriters landing in Los Angeles, Berlanti ...
Down the hall from the Dawson’s Creek offices, producer Mickey Liddell had set up shop at Sony. The blue-eyed, sandy headed Liddell had earned his own office space after producing a series of commercial and critical hit indie films, including Traveler, which starred a then-untested actor named Mark Whalberg, and Telling Lies in Americafor writer Jo...
Though Mickey Liddell had total confidence in Greg Berlanti’s ability to direct 8x10s,the producer had no illusions about the production ahead. Filmmaking poses countless potential hazards, even for experienced directors. With a neophyte at the helm—albeit one of obvious talent and dedication—Liddell knew he needed to prepare as much as possible. “...
As production on The Broken Hearts Club ramped up in September 1999, Greg Berlanti had his work cut out for him. He’d begun showrunning on Dawson’s Creek, which would mean that he had to split his time between both projects, rehearsing his cast and working with Director of Photography Paul Elliott to develop the visual style of the film over a thre...
When shooting wrapped in October 1999, the cast scattered to their respective homes and future jobs. Berlanti and Liddell, meanwhile, began editing the film back at Sony. Despite the studio’s earlier confidence in the project—and that Berlanti had brought the shoot in on time—studio executives began to get nervous over the impending release of the ...
The Broken Hearts Club helped lite a fuse that would change TV forever. It was one of the breakthrough films or shows that led to an explosion of cross-over LGBTQ content, and to the affirmation that mainstream audiences could relate to and enjoy queer characters. In Fall of 2000, with The Broken Hearts Club still on screens, the sitcom Will & Grac...
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy: Directed by Greg Berlanti. With Ben Weber, Timothy Olyphant, Matt McGrath, Zach Braff. An insight into the turbulent lives and loves of a gay clique based in Los Angeles.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Greg Berlanti
- 2000-10-20
May 12, 2016 · The plot sees a group of West Hollywood gay men living, loving, and complaining about every single godforsaken element of gay life. It’d be insufferable (and sometimes it is) were it not for ...
Nov 10, 2000 · The earlier movie half-suggested it was impossible to be gay and happy. That possibility would not occur to the “Broken Hearts” characters. The movie takes place in the predominantly gay area of West Hollywood, where its heroes hang out in coffee shops, restaurants, clubs and each other’s homes.
Feb 1, 2000 · Greg Berlanti. A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success.
