The Broken

The Broken

  • Director: Sean Ellis
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, France
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 26, 2008
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Tan Nát
  • "The Broken" is a horror movie directed by Sean Ellis, starring Lena Headey and Richard Jenkins. The film was released in the United States in 2008. 
    The film tells the horrific story of Gina and her boyfriend throwing a party dinner for her father's birthday.

    Details

    • Release date November 26, 2008
    • Filming locations Greenford Studios, 5-11 Taunton Road, Metropolitan Centre, Greenford, Greater London, England, UK
    • Production companies Gaumont, Left Turn Films, Gaumont International

    Box office

    Budget

    £4,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $1,688,551

    Movie reviews

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    • By Graham 2022-04-13 09:01:07

      We all want to go to different worlds to find our true selves.

      I don't understand why this movie is rated so low. In the process of watching it, I felt that the atmosphere was very depressed and fearful, but I couldn't really tell what exactly we were afraid of. Since the mirror was broken at their father's birthday banquet, these five people welcomed themselves in the mirror world. At first I thought it was a ghost movie, but the five people who had hung up at the birthday party gradually recovered their memories of "dying dying", and finally slowly...

    • By Adela 2022-04-13 09:01:07

      film review

      From the plot point of view, this film seems to reflect a story about mirrors. In fact, everyone should find some commonalities from many similar films. The story of the world in the mirror has been around since a long time ago. The question creates doubts, and there are many opinions on it. At the same time produced a lot of excellent works. The film seems to reflect one of those views. In the mirror, there is a world opposite to the normal world. If the normal world is good, the world in...

    • By Darron 2022-04-12 09:01:11

      I watched it before I knew it

      When I saw the title, I thought it was a moving movie, but I didn't expect more than an hour to pass silently. . .

          The main point of the film is that the other self emerges from the mirror, kills the real person, and lives in his (her) place.

          What's more ridiculous is that the heroine has always thought that her boyfriend is not a real boyfriend, and created the image of a victim. At the end of the film, the heroine is the substitute. This substitute is also in the...

    • By Clarissa 2022-04-12 09:01:11

      The movie reviews found in Baidu Bar are great! ! ! Why is the family divided, and only the younger brother is not killed, the answer is given below

      At the beginning of the film, the heroine Gina walks into the radiology department of the hospital where she works in the dark rain of London, wearing a dark trench coat. In the morning, a patient's X-ray film caught the attention of Gina and her colleagues. The internal organs on the X-ray film are mirror images of normal people's internal organs. Such a mirror image occurs only once in every 100,000 people.

      Gina's father John will retire in two weeks, and his mood has been very low....

    • By Taya 2022-04-12 09:01:11

      "Destruction": The mirror can read you and "you"

      (Written by Zhi Ning on March 25, 2009)
         For this second feature film written and directed by Ellis, some critics said: "Director Sean Ellis is good at creating imaginative and impactful films. However, the arrangement of the story line and the layout of the plot are his weak points.” This evaluation is very pertinent, and Ellis’s creativity and characteristics in audio-visual aspects have been well received by the audience in the short film and “Sleepless Supermarket”. I have felt in...

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    • By Bridie 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      The plot is...

    • By Nedra 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      When the man in the mirror found out that he had killed himself, that expression was too...

    • By Imelda 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      The first hour and 10 minutes are taken for granted, and the last 10 minutes save the film, but the first part is really boring, how many people will stick to the...

    • By Winfield 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      It's the one I watched before, and I remembered the plot~~ It's still...

    • By Alexandrine 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      I was scared to pee at the end, but I missed the gorgeous ending! Never going to pee...

    Movie plot

    The film begins with an air of horror planted in the gloomy London air. Beautiful Gina (Lena Headey), who works in the hospital's radiology department, and her boyfriend Stefan (Melvie Popper) throw a party for her father's birthday, including Gina's brother Daniel and sister-in-law Kate. Attend. Gina's father, a staff member of the US embassy in London, will soon retire, and the joyous atmosphere of the birthday party is suddenly...
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    Background creation

    At the stage when the filming plan of "The Broken" was blocked and postponed, some investors who were initially interested in the script proposed a revision plan of about 20 or 30 pages. They wanted to make a large-scale adjustment to the script. This script was in their hands. Changed beyond recognition, completely deviated from the original intention of writing it, almost completely destroyed. Later, I left for a period of time, it...
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    Movie quotes

    • [opening screen, small text on black]

      Opening Quote: You have conquered and I yield.

      Opening Quote: Yet henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the World, to Heaven, and to Hope!

      Opening Quote: In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

      Opening Quote: Edgar Allan Poe

    • [Kate and Gina are kneeling down to sweep up the large mirror that suddenly broke during dinner while the men of the family stand by and watch them]

      Kate Coleman: [Quietly to Gina] I guess that's seven years back luck then.

      Gina McVey: [mischievously whispering] I thought it was seven years bad sex.

      Kate Coleman: No, I've already had that.

      Daniel McVey: Oi, I heard that.

      Kate Coleman: [smiling up at her husband] Baby, that was before I met you.

      [John, Gina and Kate's father, is apparently oblivious to the entire by-play that's occurred and preoccupied by the broken mirror]

      John McVey: Do you think we can fix it?

    • [Gina is studying a set of chest X-rays in her office when Jim approaches and looks at them as well]

      Gina McVey: Who are these for?

      Jim: Dr. Waters.

      Gina McVey: Interesting.

      Jim: What?

      Gina McVey: Well, do you notice anything?

      Jim: They're back to front?

      Gina McVey: No, look. Left and right tags.

      Jim: The heart's on the right side of the body?

      Gina McVey: [Nodding] Dextrocardia with situs inversus. It's not uncommon, but it's pretty rare. One in every thousand.