Broken Bridges
Bo Price is a country musician who has fallen out of the spotlight. Bo then returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
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11 July 1987, Columbus, Ohio, USA
9 January 1965, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
11 February 1936, Lansing, Michigan, USA
28 November 1963, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
27 April 1988, Newnan, Georgia, USA
April 01, 2007
The kind of trite material that seems better suited for the small screen than the big screen.
October 09, 2006
Soundtrack sales seem to be the main motivation behind this corny and cliched Southern melodrama that marks the film debut of country music star Toby Keith.
September 08, 2006
A limp, timeworn tale of a drunken has-been country star (Keith) and a TV reporter he had and lost (Kelly Preston) who meet again after returning home because of a tragedy.
September 23, 2006
Director Goldmann, who cut his teeth directing videos for Shania Twain and Faith Hill, never misses a chance to punch-up an emotional scene with a contrived, heart-melting music performance by one or more of his stars.
September 08, 2006
Broken Bridges is one of those movies where most scenes start with a character staring out over a pond, sitting on a porch, or looking at an old photograph, just waiting to reminisce with whoever sidles up next to them.
September 22, 2006
It's obviously intended as a star vehicle, but Broken Bridges turns out to be a rattletrap jalopy for country music performer Toby Keith.
September 08, 2006
Any viewer who can't predict the outcome of this modest flick must not be familiar with a certain genre to which it is indebted: the made-for-TV movie.
September 08, 2006
When you can get just as good on the Hallmark network, why drive all the way to a theater?
March 01, 2007
An imperfect but emotionally true and often magnificently acted drama.
September 22, 2006
Broken Bridges is wrapped tight in the cloak of good intentions, soft-pedaling tired tripe about redemption, reconciliation, and finding solace in the bottle.
July 28, 2009
Country star Toby Keith makes his acting debut in this rickety heartland drama, which was produced by Country Music Television and panders shamelessly to the traditional-values crowd.
September 29, 2006
It feels about as sincere and insightful as a Schlitz-induced rendition of Achy-Breaky Heart.
