A Broken Sole (2007)
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50% of users liked it
(111 ratings)
Six people become three couples in the wake of the emotional chaos of 9/11 in this three-part drama adapted from the off-Broadway play by Susan Charlotte. Hilary (Judith Light) is a fiftysomething movie buff who teaches film studies. On the afternoon of September 11, she discovers there's a hole… More Six people become three couples in the wake of the emotional chaos of 9/11 in this three-part drama adapted from the off-Broadway play by Susan Charlotte. Hilary (Judith Light) is a fiftysomething movie buff who teaches film studies. On the afternoon of September 11, she discovers there's a hole in her shoe, and she turns to a cobbler (Danny Aiello) with a passion for opera for an emergency repair; while they don't get along at first, they bond over a shared love of the classic Italian film The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Elsewhere, Nan (Margaret Colin) is a would-be actress who supports herself working at a travel agency who is trying to make sense of her on-again, off-again relationship with filmmaker Bob (John Shea). And a real-estate woman with a bad case of nerves (Laila Robins) has her expectations up-ended by a chatty taxi driver (Bob Dishy). A Broken Sole was the first feature film from director Antony Marsellis. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Antony Marsellis
- Written By
- Susan Charlotte
- Genres
- Drama
- In Theaters
- Nov 2, 2007 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
The artificiality of the proceedings, which are marked by schematic characterizations, obvious metaphors and stilted dialogue, is not alleviated by the director's choice of visuals.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
Boringly staged tableaus of self-involved yuppies and sentimentalized white working-class ethnics struggling to connect.
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Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide
The rhythms of Charlotte's mannered, artificial dialogue are better suited to stage than screen -- each segment started life as a one-act play and overall the film works better as a conversation starter than drama.
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Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
A Broken Sole is a bad movie, worse theater.
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Cast
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Danny Aiello
as Shoemaker
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Judith Light
as Shoemaker's Customer
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Laila Robins
as Cabbie's Passenger
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Bob Dishy
as Cabbie
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Margaret Colin
as Dyslexic Lover?s Lover, Dyslexic Loverâ?...
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John Shea
as Dyslexic Lover