Rotten
That's a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little fairer to both sexes.
Hank Sartin, Time Out
Not Easily Broken
Life tries to break you. Love holds you together.
2009 · 1h 39m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Bill Duke
Overview
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Director and cast
- Bill Duke Director
- Morris Chestnut as Dave Johnson
- Taraji P. Henson as Clarice Clark
- Maeve Quinlan as Julie Sawyer
- Kevin Hart as Tree
- Jenifer Lewis as Mary 'Mama' Clark
- Eddie Cibrian as Brock Houseman
- Wood Harris as Darnell Gooden
- Niecy Nash-Betts as Michelle
- Albert Hall as Bishop Wilkes
- Jeff Krebs as Trauma Doctor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
31%
Tomatometer
Rotten
'Don't go all Waiting to Exhale on me,' advises one of Clarice's soul sisters late in the film. If only.
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
Laughter through tears is director Bill Duke's M.O., and he hits the bull's-eye of that modest target.
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
[It] has the saving grace of a lively sense of humor that certainly helps the spiritual medicine go down.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
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.
Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
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