Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken (2009)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (67 reviews)

  • 66% of users liked it
    (69,074 ratings)

Director Bill Duke steps behind the camera for this adaptation of the T.D. Jakes novel concerning a newly married couple that finds their union threatened by pressures involving faith, family, and finances. As the couple exchanges their vows, the minister lays a cord around them while uttering the… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Brian Bird
Genres
Drama, Horror
In Theaters
Jan 9, 2009 Wide
Screen Gems/SONY PICTURES

Critic Reviews

  • Hank Sartin, Time Out

    That's a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little fairer to both sexes.

  • Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly

    Laughter through tears is director Bill Duke's M.O., and he hits the bull's-eye of that modest target.

  • Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter

    [It] has the saving grace of a lively sense of humor that certainly helps the spiritual medicine go down.

  • Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times

    Not Easily Broken isn't perfect, but it is persuasive in its portrait of a husband and wife who must decide whether their frayed marriage is worth fighting to save.

  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    A well-crafted message picture disguised as soap opera.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • paul s


    a paint by numbers only using a trowel instead of a brush, this film has mostly cardboard throwaway charactors and a message that you couldn't miss with both eyes closed. Said message, all wrapped up in a nice religious bow, seems to be that the only true relationship can be… More

  • Fascade F


    I saw this multi - dramatic motion picture and was emotionally moved as well as spiritually enchanted with the outcome of how this couple watched their trust and devotion in the vows of their marriage gets challenged to the max to the brink of collapse. See this, it is so vividly… More

  • Erin C


    A little over-the-top at times, but it had a good message.

  • Chosen 7


    A little preachy and cheesy at times but it's actually a decent film for the most part. Good performances by Chestnut and Henson. Kevin Hart was entertaining but kind of stupid. With a better director and better writing it could have been a good film.

  • Leo L


    Here is an interesting movie that centralizes on love, faith, temptation, resentment, and estrangement. A husband and wife are sorely tested in this movie when the husband?s dreams of playing professional baseball is shattered when he is injured, and begins to set himself up for… More

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