THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY
A refreshing romantic comedy with mature content for adults only.
Should You Watch It?
This is a refreshing romantic comedy with morally uplifting themes. It values letting go of the past while recognizing how the past helped shape you. Family, friendship, forgiveness, and caring for others also receive meaningful emphasis.
The cost is substantial. The film includes unnecessary foul language, lewd sexual content, sexual jokes and innuendos, alcohol use, and politically correct elements. Romantic ideas about love and emotion also play a central role, so the positive content does not make this suitable for children or young teens.
If you are an adult who can handle those concerns, WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESLucy, a young art-gallery assistant in New York City, is dumped by her boyfriend and fired from her job. As she tries to clear away reminders of past relationships, she meets Nick, a man renovating a boutique hotel.
Lucy proposes creating an unusual gallery from the trinkets people leave behind after relationships end. Nick agrees to let her use part of his hotel, and an unlikely friendship and business partnership begins.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this film rises above its genre limitations. It is refreshing, though its cheesy parts and predictability remain obvious.
Geraldine Viswanathan and Dacre Montgomery are great in their roles. Their unexpected, captivating chemistry gives the movie energy, while Viswanathan delivers the fast-moving, witty dialogue particularly well.
The Worldview
The film presents a mixed Romantic, moral worldview. It encourages people to let others help them release the past while still appreciating how past experiences shaped them. It also exalts family, friendship, forgiveness, and taking care of others.
The movie recognizes that material things cannot bring happiness or love. Christian elements involving marriage and forgiveness appear, and jealousy is discussed as unbecoming. However, romantic ideas about love and emotion remain central, and the film includes politically correct elements, discussions of gender roles, feminist pro-abortion messaging, and a false New Age idea about “living your truth.”
The film’s central longing is for healing after heartbreak and for love that reaches beyond possessions. Scripture points toward a deeper renewal: “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead” (Philippians 3:13).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Mixed Romantic, moral worldview includes letting others help you let go of your past, family, friendship and taking care and helping others is extolled, the Romantic theme of love plays a central part as the two main characters are getting over heartbreak and end up falling in love with one another, love is also found in places and things, but eventually the characters see that material things can’t bring you happiness and love, Christian elements of marriage and forgiveness are seen and jealously is discussed as being unbecoming, positive content is also marred by some politically correct content including one character is a homosexual and is seen kissing a girl at the beginning go the movie, while two girls who are best friends kiss, a comment from a man about being homosexual also is said, gender roles are discussed, and some feminist pro-abortion elements include a shirt displaying a uterus says “my body my choice” and a Planned Parenthood volunteer on the side of the road is trying to recruit people, plus there’s a false New Age comment about “living your truth”
Foul Language
25 obscenities, 19 profanities (one GD), light name-calling, diarrhea comment, jokes about murder
Violence
Man is chased down the road by a woman and hit in the head
Sex
Strong and light sexual immorality includes implied fornication between unmarried man and woman who eventually become a couple, kissing between girls who were dating, and a kiss between two friends who are girls, a depicted vibrator, many conversations about sex, and one comment about someone being a sex god, some lewd jokes regarding sex and self-abuse, a politically correct joke about gender roles, and kissing between a dating couple
Nudity
Upper male nudity as man lays in bed with woman in her bra, but they’re covered by a sheet
Alcohol Use
Comment about alcohol from underage girls, alcohol seen and drank throughout the movie and one instance of girls drunk
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
Cigarettes seen but not smoked, and conversations about marijuana, chewing tobacco and LSD;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Lying, stealing, betting.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Lucy learns to let go of objects without denying the experiences behind them. What might it look like to remember your past honestly while moving forward faithfully?
Philippians 3:13–14 · Isaiah 43:18–19The film values friendship and allowing others to help you. How can your family become better at receiving and offering help?
Galatians 6:2 · Ecclesiastes 4:9–10Forgiveness and jealousy both appear in the story. How does Scripture describe the difference between forgiving someone and holding on to resentment?
Ephesians 4:31–32 · James 3:14–16The movie suggests that material things cannot provide true happiness or love. What can possessions do, and what can they never do?
Matthew 6:19–21 · 1 Timothy 6:17–19The Final Word
This is a polished, funny, and genuinely refreshing romantic comedy with strong performances and worthwhile themes. Its frequent language, sexual content, alcohol use, and worldview concerns make it unsuitable for children and young teens. For discerning adults, the answer is WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY. For other family options, see.
